Aircraft brakes manufacturing · California

Gardena (NASCO)

Gardena, CA · ~39 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gardena (NASCO) runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Aircraft brakes manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Gardena (NASCO): 2.4 TCR = 72% of Aircraft brakes manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gardena (NASCO) safety composite

Gardena (NASCO) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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)
D 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

Gardena (NASCO) held a steady TCR band

Gardena (NASCO)'s TCR held near 0.1 from 2.4 in 2023 to 2.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 2.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.98× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.4 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336413 · Gardena, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #46/104
  • PHOTO MarathonNorco Aerosp…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MarathonNorco Aerospace, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gardena (NASCO) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gardena (NASCO) averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the Aircraft brakes manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Gardena (NASCO) TCR series: 2023=2.4 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Gardena (NASCO) falls in its industry

650 Aircraft brakes manufacturing establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

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 104 Aircraft brakes manufacturing employers in California.

Gardena (NASCO) (39 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Gardena (NASCO)
Gardena (NASCO) (39 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Gardena (NASCO) has fewer employees than the Aircraft brakes manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2023 2.4 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336413 · CA · Gardena

650 Aircraft brakes manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 223 employers in Gardena, 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 MarathonNorco Aerospace, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kaman Composites - Wichita, Inc. 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Textron Aviation - McCauley 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rohr Inc 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE San Felipe Farms 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schreiner Brothers Farms 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE TLC Custom Farming Company LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sonoma Valley Vineyards 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 602 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-030 909 FTE
CITY-NEAR GARDENA HUB (CAGAR) 809 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAGAR - GARDENA HUB 794 FTE
NAT-TCR Kokopelli Landscaping, Inc 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ivey Residential, LLC 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cowin Equipment Company of Pensacola 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Eagle Eye Farms Blackfoot 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Harney Rock and Paving Company 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schutte Lumber Company 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0328 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0266 39 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.