Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing · California

Freudenberg Medical

Carpinteria, CA · ~184 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Freudenberg Medical runs at 109% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Freudenberg Medical: 3.6 TCR = 109% of Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Freudenberg Medical safety composite

Freudenberg Medical scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

2021→2024

Freudenberg Medical injury rate improved

Freudenberg Medical's TCR fell 0.5 from 4.4 in 2021 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 4.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=4.4 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339113 · Carpinteria, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.6 · 109% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #46/65
  • PHOTO MAC Medical, Inc.
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~184 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MAC Medical, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Freudenberg Medical in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Freudenberg Medical averages 3.6 TCR (109% of the Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Freudenberg Medical TCR series: 2021=4.4 · 2022=2.6 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Freudenberg Medical falls in its industry

555 Surgical supplies (except medi establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 65 Surgical supplies (except medi employers in California.

Freudenberg Medical (184 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Freudenberg Medical
Freudenberg Medical (184 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Freudenberg Medical has more employees than the Surgical supplies (except medical instru median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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 3.9 1.6 7 0 0
2023 3.6 3.6 7 0 0
2022 2.6 2.6 2 3 0
2021 4.4 4.4 8 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339113 · CA · Carpinteria

555 Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 45 employers in Carpinteria, 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 MAC Medical, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Polyzen LLC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Townsend Design-Bakersfield 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alps South LLC 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE PEREGRINA INC. 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steele Valley 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE UFP Thornton llc. 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE Abel Brenes Aparicio 184 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 166 661 FTE
CITY-NEAR LinkedIn Carpinteria 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coastal Blooms Nursery, LLC 326 FTE
CITY-NEAR NuSil Technology, Carpinteria 322 FTE
NAT-TCR 8010156 Plastipak Packaging Champaign 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR State of Indiana - Department of Child Services - Knox 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CS Manufacturing 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cobalt Cattle Company LLC - Sublette 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Eugene EWP 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blue Star Growers 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE PAM Rehab of Beaumont 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE Partners In Progress, Inc 184 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, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.