Automobile suspension springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing · California

FOX Factory - Watsonville

Watsonville, CA · ~299 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

FOX Factory - Watsonville runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Automobile suspension springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

FOX Factory - Watsonville: 3.1 TCR = 94% of Automobile suspension springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

FOX Factory - Watsonville safety composite

FOX Factory - Watsonville scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 69% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2018→2021

FOX Factory - Watsonville injury rate improved

FOX Factory - Watsonville's TCR fell 0.4 from 4.5 in 2018 to 4.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 4.5 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.5 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=4.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332613 · Watsonville, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 94% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #4/10
  • PHOTO Cimarron Machine Ser…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~299 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cimarron Machine Services, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · California employers → · Look up another →

FOX Factory - Watsonville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows FOX Factory - Watsonville averages 3.1 TCR (94% of the Automobile suspension springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

FOX Factory - Watsonville TCR series: 2018=4.5 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where FOX Factory - Watsonville falls in its industry

189 Automobile suspension springs, establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 10 Automobile suspension springs, employers in California.

FOX Factory - Watsonville (299 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate FOX Factory - Watsonville
FOX Factory - Watsonville (299 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 4.4

FOX Factory - Watsonville has more employees than the Automobile suspension springs, heavy gau median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2021 4.1 3.5 7 0 0
2020 1.3 1.3 5 0 0
2019 2.4 2.4 8 0 0
2018 4.5 4.2 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332613 · CA · Watsonville

189 Automobile suspension springs, heavy gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 111 employers in Watsonville, 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 Cimarron Machine Services, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hickory Spring Plant 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elyria Spring 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ark-Ell Springs 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Peri & Sons Farms of California, LLC 299 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terra Bella 299 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colorado Farms LLC. 299 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henry Leal 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 2,439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Premiere Raspberries, LLC 680 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watsonville Community Hospital 632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Elkhorn Berry Farms LLC 550 FTE
NAT-TCR USCS- Hazleton, PA 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Birmingham Division Trussville 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR FE Moran Mechanical Services 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Dalles Health & Rehabilitation Center 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Performance Contractors, Inc. - Exxon Baytown 299 FTE
NAT-SIZE Armstrong Flooring Inc 299 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4813-48130009-Freeman Expo Lanham 299 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kaukauna location 299 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: 2021, 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.