Drill presses, woodworking-type, manufacturing · California

Kval Inc.

Petaluma, CA · ~119 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kval Inc. runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Drill presses, woodworking-type, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Kval Inc.: 5.0 TCR = 153% of Drill presses, woodworking-type, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kval Inc. safety composite

Kval Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Kval Inc.: 2.8 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.58× in 2024

Kval Inc.'s TCR rose 5.2 from 2.8 in 2017 to 8.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333243 · Petaluma, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 153% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK P34
  • PHOTO Valmet - Clarks Summit
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 57 inj
  • SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Valmet - Clarks Summit (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kval Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kval Inc. averages 5.0 TCR (153% of the Drill presses, woodworking-type, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kval Inc. TCR series: 2017=2.8 · 2018=8.5 · 2019=0 · 2020=10.9 · 2021=1 · 2022=9.1 · 2023=0 · 2024=8 · BLS 3.3

Where Kval Inc. falls in its industry

137 Drill presses, woodworking-typ establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Kval Inc. (119 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Kval Inc.
Kval Inc. (119 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Kval Inc. has more employees than the Drill presses, woodworking-type, manufac median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 8.0 8.0 10 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 9.1 9.1 12 0 0
2021 1.0 0.9 11 0 0
2020 10.9 9.8 10 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 8.5 1.2 6 1 0
2017 2.8 1.1 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333243 · CA · Petaluma

137 Drill presses, woodworking-type, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 153 employers in Petaluma, 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 Valmet - Clarks Summit 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valmet Inc Biddeford 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Collins Machinery and Engineering Inc 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Valmet - Lenox 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fresh Prep, LLC 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE HM Clause - Cousteau 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Booth Ranches LLC 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pyramid Flowers 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 136 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 470 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 169 2,859 FTE
CITY-NEAR Solairus Aviation 1,400 FTE
NAT-TCR United Towing Dallas 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Intek Plastics, Inc. Hastings 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Regional International of Wny, Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR DC16 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0649 Towson 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Park Place 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake Erie Construction Co. 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Firth Rixson - Rochester 119 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.