Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing · California

Hi-Grade Materials-Thousand Palms Ready Mix

Thousand Palms, CA · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hi-Grade Materials-Thousand Palms Ready Mix runs at 158% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing workplace, earning a grade D.

Hi-Grade Materials-Thousand Palms Ready Mix: 5.2 TCR = 158% of Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hi-Grade Materials-Thousand Palms Ready Mix safety composite

Hi-Grade Materials-Thousand Palms Ready Mix scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

Hi-Grade Materials-Thousand Palms Ready Mix: 0.0 → 9.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2019

Hi-Grade Materials-Thousand Palms Ready Mix's TCR rose 9.7 from 0.0 in 2017 to 9.7 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327320 · Thousand Palms, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 158% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #72/128
  • PHOTO Auburn Hills plant 36
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Auburn Hills plant 36 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hi-Grade Materials-Thousand Palms Ready Mix in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hi-Grade Materials-Thousand Palms Ready Mix averages 5.2 TCR (158% of the Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing BLS benchmark).

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

Hi-Grade Materials-Thousand Palms Ready Mix TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=6 · 2019=9.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Hi-Grade Materials-Thousand Palms Ready Mix falls in its industry

1,316 Ready-mix concrete manufacturi establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #72 safest of 128 Ready-mix concrete manufacturi employers in California.

Hi-Grade Materials-Thousand Palms Ready Mix (21 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Hi-Grade Materials-Thousand Palms Ready Mix
Hi-Grade Materials-Thousand Palms Ready Mix (21 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Hi-Grade Materials-Thousand Palms Ready Mix has fewer employees than the Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and dis median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2019 9.7 4.8 2 0 0
2018 6.0 6.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327320 · CA · Thousand Palms

1,316 Ready-mix concrete manufacturing and distributing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 25 employers in Thousand Palms, 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 Auburn Hills plant 36 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Algonquin Yard 285 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midtown Concrete Plant 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ernst Concrete Plant 41 Sugarcreek 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Poso Ridge,LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE TELESIS ONION CO., INC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mayflower Farms Inc 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR Conserve Landcare 381 FTE
CITY-NEAR SunLine Transit Agency 366 FTE
CITY-NEAR PWLC II, INC. 171 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pro Landscaping Inc 121 FTE
NAT-TCR Hartel's/DBJ Waste Collection 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ottawa 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Associated Milk Producers Inc (Arlington) 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR AMEREN MISSOURI - Geraldine District 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cochran Oil Mill & Ginnery 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Select Painting & Decorating, Inc 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Electrical Services Group LLC 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE MIDSTATE LUMBER CORP of PA 21 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.