Testing Laboratory · California

Harbor Freight Tools Quality Assurance

Calabasas, CA · ~70 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Harbor Freight Tools Quality Assurance runs at 726% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Testing Laboratory workplace, earning a grade F.

Harbor Freight Tools Quality Assurance: 3.6 TCR = 726% of Testing Laboratory BLS 0.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Harbor Freight Tools Quality Assurance safety composite

Harbor Freight Tools Quality Assurance scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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

−4.8

2019→2021

Harbor Freight Tools Quality Assurance injury rate improved

Harbor Freight Tools Quality Assurance's TCR fell 4.8 from 4.8 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.1 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.8 · 2020=6.1 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541380 · Calabasas, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 3.6 · 726% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #25/35
  • PHOTO ROMEO PROV GROUND
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ROMEO PROV GROUND (0.1 TCR gap)

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Harbor Freight Tools Quality Assurance in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Harbor Freight Tools Quality Assurance averages 3.6 TCR (726% of the Testing Laboratory BLS benchmark).

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

Harbor Freight Tools Quality Assurance TCR series: 2019=4.8 · 2020=6.1 · 2021=0 · BLS 0.5

Where Harbor Freight Tools Quality Assurance falls in its industry

232 Testing Laboratory establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 35 Testing Laboratory employers in California.

Harbor Freight Tools Quality Assurance (70 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 1.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Harbor Freight Tools Quality Assurance
Harbor Freight Tools Quality Assurance (70 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 1.0

Harbor Freight Tools Quality Assurance has fewer employees than the Testing Laboratory median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.0. 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
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 6.1 6.1 5 0 0
2019 4.8 2.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541380 · CA · Calabasas

232 Testing Laboratory employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 32 employers in Calabasas, 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 ROMEO PROV GROUND 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eagle Analytical 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR QC LABORATORIES INC. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR First Alert Sling Testing LLC 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Heritage Land Company 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ceballos Ag Services, Inc. 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRTHN 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE EW Merritt Farms 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harbor Freight Tools Corporate Calabasas 760 FTE
CITY-NEAR HQ East 641 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coty Professional 487 FTE
CITY-NEAR ALE USA, Inc 267 FTE
NAT-TCR Lycos Finish, LLC 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Tyler Rehab Associates 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CN - Haverford 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Youngstown 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lind Exco, Inc 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Appalachian Tank Car Services - Lynchburg VA 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Shore Chevrolet LLC 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vibco, Inc. 70 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.