Brackets (i.e., builder's hardware-type), metal, manufacturing · California

Federal Cartridge Company

Oroville, CA · ~115 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Federal Cartridge Company runs at 21% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Brackets (i.e., builder's hardware-type), metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Federal Cartridge Company: 0.7 TCR = 21% of Brackets (i.e., builder's hardware-type), metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Federal Cartridge Company safety composite

Federal Cartridge Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

C

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

TCR Δ

−0.5

2018→2020

Federal Cartridge Company injury rate improved

Federal Cartridge Company's TCR fell 0.5 from 0.9 in 2018 to 0.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 0.9 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.9 · 2019=0.7 · 2020=0.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332510 · Oroville, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 21% of ind

  • DART 0.5 DART
  • RANK #2/11
  • PHOTO EMKA, Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~115 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: EMKA, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Federal Cartridge Company in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Federal Cartridge Company averages 0.7 TCR (21% of the Brackets (i.e., builder's hardware-type), metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Federal Cartridge Company TCR series: 2018=0.9 · 2019=0.7 · 2020=0.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Federal Cartridge Company falls in its industry

189 Brackets (i.e., builder's hard establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 11 Brackets (i.e., builder's hard employers in California.

Federal Cartridge Company (115 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.4 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Federal Cartridge Company
Federal Cartridge Company (115 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Federal Cartridge Company has more employees than the Brackets (i.e., builder's hardware-type) median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2020 0.5 0.5 1 0 0
2019 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2018 0.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332510 · CA · Oroville

189 Brackets (i.e., builder's hardware-type), metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 79 employers in Oroville, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR EMKA, Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yale Security Inc. - Norton Door 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wyman Gordon-Dillon 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Teledyne Marine Systems 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Buona Terra Farming 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE ROSE & A FLC 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-CSBU - Covina 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Visalia Base - Bld: 0080 - 15 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 66 2,360 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oroville Hospital 1,881 FTE
CITY-NEAR Butte-Glenn Community College District 1,344 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oroville Hospital Post Acute Center 1,340 FTE
NAT-TCR Bolton & Menk - Burnsville 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Valiant Artificial Lift Solutions, LLC 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Services 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ruskin Rooftop Systems 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Precision Planting Morton 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alden Village North 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Dynamics NASSCO Bremerton 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Recycling Plant 115 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.