Other Building Material Dealers · California

Hwm - Chico

Chico, CA · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hwm - Chico runs at 161% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Other Building Material Dealers workplace, earning a grade D.

Hwm - Chico: 5.5 TCR = 161% of Other Building Material Dealers BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hwm - Chico safety composite

Hwm - Chico scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Hwm - Chico: 3.3 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2024

Hwm - Chico's TCR rose 4.4 from 3.3 in 2023 to 7.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · Chico, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 161% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #85/159
  • PHOTO 032 Bothell
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 032 Bothell (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hwm - Chico in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hwm - Chico averages 5.5 TCR (161% of the Other Building Material Dealers BLS benchmark).

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

Hwm - Chico TCR series: 2023=3.3 · 2024=7.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Hwm - Chico falls in its industry

1,643 Other Building Material Dealer establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #85 safest of 159 Other Building Material Dealer employers in California.

Hwm - Chico (40 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Hwm - Chico
Hwm - Chico (40 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Hwm - Chico has more employees than the Other Building Material Dealers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 7.7 3.8 2 0 0
2023 3.3 3.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · CA · Chico

1,643 Other Building Material Dealers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 189 employers in Chico, 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 032 Bothell 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Naples Lumber & Supply Co., Inc. 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR McCoys Building Supply- Nacogdoches 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2807-1427 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stackhouse Brothers 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE PISTACHIO HARVESTING, INC. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Watsonville/San Juan Bautista 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gomez Growers 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-11 4,124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Enloe Medical Center Employees 3,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 72 2,394 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 521 2,370 FTE
NAT-TCR Palm Gardens Health and Rehabilitation, LLC 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Royal Metal Products 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Marshall High School 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Salina Fairdale 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE McArthur Manor Assisted Living 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Top Seedz LLC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Charlottesville - Parks 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rbs - Lakeland 40 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. 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.