Flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufacturing · California

Guardian Industries, LLC

Name: Guardian Industries, LLC Workplace Safety Data
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Kingsburg, CA · ~273 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.7
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Guardian Industries, LLC runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Guardian Industries, LLC: 2.7 TCR = 82% of Flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Guardian Industries, LLC safety composite

Guardian Industries, LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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): C 2.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers
DART rate: C 1.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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

Guardian Industries, LLC: 1.6 → 2.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.44× in 2023

Guardian Industries, LLC's TCR rose 1.2 from 1.6 in 2017 to 2.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327211 · Kingsburg, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 82% of ind

DART 1.2 DART
RANK #6/15
PHOTO Cardinal FG -Mooresv…
BOOK 6y book
INJ 49 inj
SIZE ~273 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cardinal FG -Mooresville FG (0.0 TCR gap)

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2.9
Cardinal FG -D

2.8
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2.7
Cardinal FG -M

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2.6

What this shows Guardian Industries, LLC averages 2.7 TCR (82% of the Flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Guardian Industries, LLC TCR series: 2017=1.6 · 2018=2.6 · 2019=1.9 · 2020=3.4 · 2022=3.9 · 2023=2.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Guardian Industries, LLC falls in its industry

105 Flat glass (e.g., float, plate establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 15 Flat glass (e.g., float, plate employers in California.

Guardian Industries, LLC (273 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 180 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Guardian Industries, LLC has more employees than the Flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufact median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2023	2.8	1.2	7	0
2022	3.9	1.6	10	0
2020	3.4	2.3	9	0
2019	1.9	1.6	6	0
2018	2.6	2.6	11	0
2017	1.6	1.6	6	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327211 · CA · Kingsburg

105 Flat glass (e.g., float, plate) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 62 employers in Kingsburg, 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	Cardinal FG -Mooresville FG	MOORESVILLE, NC	2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Cardinal FG - Portage FG	PORTGAGE, WI	2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Cardinal FG -Durant FG	DURANT, OK	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Vitro Flat Glass	WICHITA FALLS, TX	2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Frantz Wholesale Nursery LLC	HICKMAN	273 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Office/Processing	HUGHSON	273 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Petaluma Plant	PETALUMA	273 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Owens Illinois	VERNON	273 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LEOPOLDO'S FARM SERVICE, INC.	Kingsburg	2,541 FTE
CITY-NEAR	OFR INC	Kingsburg	1,020 FTE
CITY-NEAR	EDITH VILLALBASO	Kingsburg	747 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Kingsburg Fruit Packing Inc.	Kingsburg	524 FTE
NAT-TCR	Corydon Recovery LLC	Corydon, IN	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Mitchell Convalescent Center	Camilla, GA	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Dept. of Corrections (19)	Juneau, AK	2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Glen Street #040	Queensbury, NY	2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	ShipBob, Inc HQ	Chicago, IL	273 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Paragon Medical - Instruments & Implants - Pierceton	Pierceton, IN	273 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Chestnut Health Systems Northgate	Granite City, IL	273 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cabinetworks Group Culpeper	Culpeper, VA	273 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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.