Optical test and inspection equipment manufacturing · California

Gooch & Housego, California

Moorpark, CA · ~75 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gooch & Housego, California runs at 121% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Optical test and inspection equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Gooch & Housego, California: 4.0 TCR = 121% of Optical test and inspection equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gooch & Housego, California safety composite

Gooch & Housego, California scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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).

F

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Gooch & Housego, California: 4.8 → 7.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 7.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.75× in 2022

Gooch & Housego, California's TCR rose 2.7 from 4.8 in 2018 to 7.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333314 · Moorpark, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 121% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #16/20
  • PHOTO Rainbow Research Opt…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rainbow Research Optics, LLC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Gooch & Housego, California in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gooch & Housego, California averages 4.0 TCR (121% of the Optical test and inspection equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Gooch & Housego, California TCR series: 2018=4.8 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=2.7 · 2021=2.7 · 2022=7.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Gooch & Housego, California falls in its industry

145 Optical test and inspection eq establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 20 Optical test and inspection eq employers in California.

Gooch & Housego, California (75 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 1.8 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Gooch & Housego, California
Gooch & Housego, California (75 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 1.8

Gooch & Housego, California has fewer employees than the Optical test and inspection equipment ma median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.8. 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
2022 7.5 3.0 4 1 0
2021 2.7 2.7 2 0 0
2020 2.7 2.7 2 0 0
2019 2.3 2.3 2 0 0
2018 4.8 2.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333314 · CA · Moorpark

145 Optical test and inspection equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 54 employers in Moorpark, 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 Rainbow Research Optics, LLC 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thorlabs Lens Systems, Inc. 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR HIVIZ Shooting Systems 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Polarizers, inc. 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sunset Farms, Inc 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Martinelli Vineyard Managment, Inc 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE WESTVIEW BERRY FARMS 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE DJRAS CORP DBA PRIME HARVEST CONTRACTING 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 578 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR PENTAIR WATER POOL & SPA INC. 623 FTE
CITY-NEAR MAJCO INC DBA BIG BRAND TIRE & SERVICE 310 FTE
CITY-NEAR Benchmark Electronics Moorpark 213 FTE
NAT-TCR Fiber Pad 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR FCC- Omaha 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR New Seabury Resources Management, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Quest Industrial Corp. - a div. of Corr-Fac Corp. 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jaret Construction LLC 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant 107 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Office 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wyoming Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 75 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: 2022, 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.