Employer · California

K98 AER - El Cajon

El Cajon, CA · ~136 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

K98 AER - El Cajon runs at 22% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

K98 AER - El Cajon: 0.7 TCR = 22% of industry BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

K98 AER - El Cajon safety composite

K98 AER - El Cajon scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

K98 AER - El Cajon held a steady TCR band

K98 AER - El Cajon's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 1.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=0.8 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=0.7 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334417 · El Cajon, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 22% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/29
  • PHOTO Molex Tooilng Group
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~136 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Molex Tooilng Group (0.0 TCR gap)

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K98 AER - El Cajon in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows K98 AER - El Cajon averages 0.7 TCR (22% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

K98 AER - El Cajon TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0.8 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=0.7 · 2022=0 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where K98 AER - El Cajon falls in its industry

166 industry establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 29 industry employers in California.

K98 AER - El Cajon (136 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 1.6 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 05001,0001,500 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate K98 AER - El Cajon
K98 AER - El Cajon (136 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 144 employees and a TCR of 1.6

K98 AER - El Cajon has fewer employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.6. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 1.3 1.3 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.7 0.0 1 0 0
2020 1.3 0.6 2 0 0
2019 1.7 0.8 2 0 0
2018 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334417 · CA · El Cajon

166 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 236 employers in El Cajon, 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 Molex Tooilng Group 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Positronic Mount Vernon Facility 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR K94 AER - Bellville 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scott Electronics, Inc. 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE HM Clause - Modesto 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE Red Bluff Nursery 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE BC LABOR CONTRACTORS, INC. 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE Diede Construction 136 FTE
CITY-NEAR SOUTHERN REGION : SDU 1,176 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 370 1,148 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Aerospace Chem-tronics 1,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Aerospace Chem Tronics 938 FTE
NAT-TCR Clerk of the Circuit Court 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Shop B 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Tetra Pak Inc. - Vernon Hills 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Miami 049 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mechanical Construction 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dixon Quick Coupling 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pilot Plant 136 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, 2021, 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.