Commercial building construction general contractors · California

Junior Steel Co.

Gardena, CA · ~50 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Junior Steel Co. runs at 197% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Commercial building construction general contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Junior Steel Co.: 5.7 TCR = 197% of Commercial building construction general contractors BLS 2.9 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Junior Steel Co. safety composite

Junior Steel Co. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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)
F 5.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

−3.2

2018→2024

Junior Steel Co. injury rate improved

Junior Steel Co.'s TCR fell 3.2 from 7.1 in 2018 to 3.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.1 · 2019=7.7 · 2020=4.1 · 2024=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Gardena, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 197% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #396/486
  • PHOTO 1006 - BELFOR Deerfi…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1006 - BELFOR Deerfield Beach FL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Junior Steel Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Junior Steel Co. averages 5.7 TCR (197% of the Commercial building construction general contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Junior Steel Co. TCR series: 2018=7.1 · 2019=7.7 · 2020=4.1 · 2024=3.9 · BLS 2.9

Where Junior Steel Co. falls in its industry

4,692 Commercial building constructi establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #396 safest of 486 Commercial building constructi employers in California.

Junior Steel Co. (50 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Junior Steel Co.
Junior Steel Co. (50 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Junior Steel Co. has fewer employees than the Commercial building construction general median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 3.9 0.0 3 0 0
2020 4.1 4.1 3 0 0
2019 7.7 5.1 3 0 0
2018 7.1 5.3 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · CA · Gardena

4,692 Commercial building construction general contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 223 employers in Gardena, 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 1006 - BELFOR Deerfield Beach FL 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hellman Construction Co., Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR FSR Contracting, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cabo Construction Corp 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jack Bros., Inc. 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE M Three Ranches, LLC 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Penterman Farming Company 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trefethen Farming, LLC 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 602 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-030 909 FTE
CITY-NEAR GARDENA HUB (CAGAR) 809 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAGAR - GARDENA HUB 794 FTE
NAT-TCR Puyallup 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Holmes Regional Medical Center 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Romaster 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lynchburg Women's & Pediatric Health Services 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Store #115 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Indy-Catawba 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Leisure Creations Plant 2 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Winchester Utility System 50 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.