Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing · California

Freudenberg Medical Carpinteria

Name: Freudenberg Medical Carpinteria Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Carpinteria, CA · ~143 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 2.0
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Freudenberg Medical Carpinteria runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Freudenberg Medical Carpinteria: 2.0 TCR = 60% of Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Freudenberg Medical Carpinteria safety composite

Freudenberg Medical Carpinteria scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% 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).

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 1.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

Freudenberg Medical Carpinteria held a steady TCR band

Freudenberg Medical Carpinteria's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.2 in 2018 to 1.6 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.2 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339113 · Carpinteria, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 60% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #34/65
PHOTO Ethicon Athens
BOOK 3y book
INJ 10 inj
SIZE ~143 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ethicon Athens (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ethicon Athens

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What this shows Freudenberg Medical Carpinteria averages 2.0 TCR (60% of the Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Freudenberg Medical Carpinteria TCR series: 2018=1.2 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Freudenberg Medical Carpinteria falls in its industry

555 Surgical supplies (except medi establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 65 Surgical supplies (except medi employers in California.

Freudenberg Medical Carpinteria (143 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Freudenberg Medical Carpinteria has more employees than the Surgical supplies (except medical instru median and a lower 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
2020	1.6	0.0	3
2019	3.1	2.5	5
2018	1.2	0.6	2

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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Ethicon Athens	ATHENS, GA	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SOLO Laboratories Kutztown	KUTZTOWN, PA	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	MNA - Wisconsin	FRANKSVILLE, WI	2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Indianapolis 79th Street	INDIANAPOLIS, IN	2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	John Kautz Farms	LODI	143 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Deseret Farms of California	CHICO	143 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Southland Sod Farms Operations, Inc.	OXNARD	143 FTE
STATE-SIZE	DuPont Pioneer Woodland WDL1	WOODLAND	143 FTE
CITY-NEAR	California Department of Transportation Facility 166	Carpinteria	661 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LinkedIn Carpinteria	Carpinteria	454 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Coastal Blooms Nursery, LLC	Carpinteria	326 FTE
CITY-NEAR	NuSil Technology, Carpinteria	Carpinteria	322 FTE
NAT-TCR	Dynacraft - Louisville	Louisville, KY	2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Pw2 - Public Works Administration	Tucson, AZ	2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Porex Porous Technologies Richmond	Colonial Heights, VA	2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	D&M Plastics, LLC	Burlington, IL	2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Forest Park Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center	Carlisle, PA	143 FTE
NAT-SIZE	UVA Medical Center TCH/Northridge	Charlottesville, VA	143 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Indiana	Greenfield, IN	143 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Portus Services LLC	Jacksonville, FL	143 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.

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