Fencing and fencing accessories, wire, merchant wholesalers · California

Fence Specialties Inc

Riverside, CA · ~70 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fence Specialties Inc runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fencing and fencing accessories, wire, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Fence Specialties Inc: 4.5 TCR = 203% of Fencing and fencing accessories, wire, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fence Specialties Inc safety composite

Fence Specialties Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Fence Specialties Inc: 1.4 → 7.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.7× in 2024

Fence Specialties Inc's TCR rose 6.2 from 1.4 in 2023 to 7.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423390 · Riverside, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.5 · 203% of ind

  • DART 7.6 DART
  • RANK #13/26
  • PHOTO HBOHOP-PDM-HEBRON OH…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HBOHOP-PDM-HEBRON OHIO OPS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fence Specialties Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fence Specialties Inc averages 4.5 TCR (203% of the Fencing and fencing accessories, wire, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Fence Specialties Inc TCR series: 2023=1.4 · 2024=7.6 · BLS 2.2

Where Fence Specialties Inc falls in its industry

168 Fencing and fencing accessorie establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 26 Fencing and fencing accessorie employers in California.

Fence Specialties Inc (70 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Fence Specialties Inc
Fence Specialties Inc (70 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Fence Specialties Inc has more employees than the Fencing and fencing accessories, wire, m median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2024 7.6 7.6 5 0 0
2023 1.4 1.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423390 · CA · Riverside

168 Fencing and fencing accessories, wire, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 536 employers in Riverside, 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 HBOHOP-PDM-HEBRON OHIO OPS 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Intech Anchoring systems 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR BUILDERS FENCE COMPANY, INC. SUN VALLEY SHOP 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Century Metals & Supplies, Inc 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Heritage Land Company 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ceballos Ag Services, Inc. 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRTHN 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE EW Merritt Farms 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Riverside 8,676 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-21 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Community Hospital 2,354 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08681351 RIVERSIDE MED CENTER 2,349 FTE
NAT-TCR Scholastic, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR T-E Incorporated 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Hall-Irwin Corp 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mikron Manufacturing,Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Altuglas LLC 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE MFM Building Products Corp. 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE East Coast Welding and Fabrication, LLC 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE ACT Power Services, LLC 70 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: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.