Agar culture media manufacturing · California

Kite Pharma US, Oceanside

Oceanside, CA · ~88 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kite Pharma US, Oceanside runs at 79% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Agar culture media manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Kite Pharma US, Oceanside: 2.6 TCR = 79% of Agar culture media manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kite Pharma US, Oceanside safety composite

Kite Pharma US, Oceanside scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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).

F

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Kite Pharma US, Oceanside: 2.0 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.55× in 2023

Kite Pharma US, Oceanside's TCR rose 2.1 from 2.0 in 2020 to 4.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325414 · Oceanside, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.6 · 79% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #20/29
  • PHOTO Hygieia Biological L…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hygieia Biological Laboratories - Harter (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kite Pharma US, Oceanside in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kite Pharma US, Oceanside averages 2.6 TCR (79% of the Agar culture media manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kite Pharma US, Oceanside TCR series: 2020=2 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=3 · 2023=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Kite Pharma US, Oceanside falls in its industry

234 Agar culture media manufacturi establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 29 Agar culture media manufacturi employers in California.

Kite Pharma US, Oceanside (88 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 198 employees and a TCR of 1.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate Kite Pharma US, Oceanside
Kite Pharma US, Oceanside (88 employees, TCR 2.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 198 employees and a TCR of 1.2

Kite Pharma US, Oceanside has fewer employees than the Agar culture media manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.2. 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
2023 4.1 4.1 0 5 0
2022 3.0 2.0 2 1 0
2021 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2020 2.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325414 · CA · Oceanside

234 Agar culture media manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 164 employers in Oceanside, 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 Hygieia Biological Laboratories - Harter 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sonac - Maquoketa 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Biomune Company Lenexa 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Post Falls Division 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Neil Bassetti Farms, LLC 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Espinosa 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shoei Foods USA, Inc. 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crown Hill Ranches Inc. 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Oceanside 1,179 FTE
CITY-NEAR USPH - Oceanside Genentech 593 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-ZOCE 507 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Seabird - A Destination Hotel 474 FTE
NAT-TCR Superior Angran, LLC 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR USA LA Lafayette 707395 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 118-Denver/Federal Blvd 2.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 8807716-Damco Dist Services-Va 2.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Camsan Inc 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Universal Health Care/King 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kalco Machine & Mfg. Co. 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE C6-GA 88 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.