Machine shops · California

Heighten America, Inc.

Oakdale, CA · ~20 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heighten America, Inc. runs at 199% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade D.

Heighten America, Inc.: 6.6 TCR = 199% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heighten America, Inc. safety composite

Heighten America, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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 6.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

−1.9

2017→2024

Heighten America, Inc. injury rate improved

Heighten America, Inc.'s TCR fell 1.9 from 9.6 in 2017 to 7.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 14.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.6 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=9.6 · 2022=14.2 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=7.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Oakdale, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 199% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #103/126
  • PHOTO Sulzer Machine
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sulzer Machine (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heighten America, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heighten America, Inc. averages 6.6 TCR (199% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Heighten America, Inc. TCR series: 2017=9.6 · 2018=0 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=9.6 · 2022=14.2 · 2023=0 · 2024=7.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Heighten America, Inc. falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #103 safest of 126 Machine shops employers in California.

Heighten America, Inc. (20 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Heighten America, Inc.
Heighten America, Inc. (20 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Heighten America, Inc. has fewer employees than the Machine shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 7.8 7.8 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 14.2 9.4 3 0 0
2020 9.6 9.6 2 0 0
2019 4.8 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 9.6 9.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · CA · Oakdale

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 36 employers in Oakdale, 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 Sulzer Machine 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR JRLON, INC. 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR JD Metalworks 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tech Met, Inc. 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sills Farms, Inc. 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE F A Maggiore & Sons, LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE CALMEX CONTRACTING INC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Velvet Antler Ranch LLC 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oakdale CA 913 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oak Valley Hospital District 557 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sconza Candy Company 178 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mozingo Construction, inc 155 FTE
NAT-TCR Spahn & Rose - Dubuque Yard 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Dionne Commons 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 3404 - Brooklyn Flatbush and Church 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Codino's Foods, Inc. 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Atlas Metal Works, LLC 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franklin Fire Department 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Johnson Center 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cedar Fiber Co. 20 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, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.