Sheet metal work (except stampings) manufacturing · California

Freeberg Industrial Fabrication

Escondido, CA · ~95 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Freeberg Industrial Fabrication runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sheet metal work (except stampings) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Freeberg Industrial Fabrication: 4.5 TCR = 136% of Sheet metal work (except stampings) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Freeberg Industrial Fabrication safety composite

Freeberg Industrial Fabrication scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 49%), 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)
D 4.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

Freeberg Industrial Fabrication: 2.4 → 6.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.42× in 2024

Freeberg Industrial Fabrication's TCR rose 4.1 from 2.4 in 2018 to 6.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332322 · Escondido, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 136% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #45/98
  • PHOTO Flexmaster USA, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Flexmaster USA, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Freeberg Industrial Fabrication in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Freeberg Industrial Fabrication averages 4.5 TCR (136% of the Sheet metal work (except stampings) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Freeberg Industrial Fabrication TCR series: 2018=2.4 · 2024=6.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Freeberg Industrial Fabrication falls in its industry

1,158 Sheet metal work (except stamp 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 #45 safest of 98 Sheet metal work (except stamp employers in California.

Freeberg Industrial Fabrication (95 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Freeberg Industrial Fabrication
Freeberg Industrial Fabrication (95 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Freeberg Industrial Fabrication has more employees than the Sheet metal work (except stampings) manu median and a higher 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 6.5 1.9 1 6 0
2018 2.4 1.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332322 · CA · Escondido

1,158 Sheet metal work (except stampings) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 244 employers in Escondido, 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 Flexmaster USA, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Millennium Steel of Texas 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR WBP 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mikron Manufacturing,Inc. 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Del Llano Farms 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Los Altos Farms, LLC 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE TreeSource 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Costa View Farms 2 (Madera) 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA Escondido 4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palomar Medical Center Escondido 3,031 FTE
CITY-NEAR Escondido CA 1,546 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bergelectric Corp. CA 1,279 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 116 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 044 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Belleville International 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Cincinnati Reds 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE One Way Wireless Construction 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boi Boise Airport 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Daniels Sharpsmart Inc - Sturtevant 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raleigh North Transmission and Distribution Operations Center 95 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, 2018. 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.