Help supply services · California

HL Welding, Inc.

National City, CA · ~296 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HL Welding, Inc. runs at 230% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Help supply services workplace, earning a grade F.

HL Welding, Inc.: 6.0 TCR = 230% of Help supply services BLS 2.6 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HL Welding, Inc. safety composite

HL Welding, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

TCR Δ

−5.9

2019→2023

HL Welding, Inc. injury rate improved

HL Welding, Inc.'s TCR fell 5.9 from 5.9 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 12.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=5.9 · 2020=12.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561320 · National City, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 6.0 · 230% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #34/57
  • PHOTO MileStone Staffing
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 48 inj
  • SIZE ~296 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MileStone Staffing (0.0 TCR gap)

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HL Welding, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HL Welding, Inc. averages 6.0 TCR (230% of the Help supply services BLS benchmark).

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

HL Welding, Inc. TCR series: 2019=5.9 · 2020=12 · 2023=0 · BLS 2.6

Where HL Welding, Inc. falls in its industry

652 Help supply services establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 57 Help supply services employers in California.

HL Welding, Inc. (296 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 197 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate HL Welding, Inc.
HL Welding, Inc. (296 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 197 employees and a TCR of 2.6

HL Welding, Inc. has more employees than the Help supply services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 12.0 12.0 30 3 0
2019 5.9 4.7 18 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561320 · CA · National City

652 Help supply services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 100 employers in National City, 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 MileStone Staffing 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 8010150 PGW Tipton 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Personnel Solutions II LLC 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR TITAN TALENT DEVELOPMENT, LLC 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE GIAMPOLINI & CO., INC. 296 FTE
STATE-SIZE Primary Color Systems Corporation 296 FTE
STATE-SIZE Digital Room LLC - Van Nuys 296 FTE
STATE-SIZE HME 296 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paradise Valley Hospital 1,014 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0908 - CWI OPTICAL LAB - CA 789 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DSD3 701 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5023 489 FTE
NAT-TCR Richland Place Apartment Homes 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR NG Turf LLC 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR United States Building Supply, Inc 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Crown Distributing Company 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Otterbein Sunset 296 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toray Composite Materials America Decatur Plant 296 FTE
NAT-SIZE Momence Packing 296 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sabert Corp 296 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, 2020, 2019. 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.