Grommets, rubber, manufacturing · California

Laird R&F Products, Inc.

Carlsbad, CA · ~123 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Laird R&F Products, Inc. runs at 413% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grommets, rubber, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Laird R&F Products, Inc.: 13.6 TCR = 413% of Grommets, rubber, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Laird R&F Products, Inc. safety composite

Laird R&F Products, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.2

2017→2023

Laird R&F Products, Inc. injury rate improved

Laird R&F Products, Inc.'s TCR fell 1.2 from 2.0 in 2017 to 0.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 49.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.0 · 2018=49.3 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326299 · Carlsbad, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.6 · 413% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #12/14
  • PHOTO FT Industries LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FT Industries LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Laird R&F Products, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Laird R&F Products, Inc. averages 13.6 TCR (413% of the Grommets, rubber, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Laird R&F Products, Inc. TCR series: 2017=2 · 2018=49.3 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Laird R&F Products, Inc. falls in its industry

257 Grommets, rubber, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 14 Grommets, rubber, manufacturin employers in California.

Laird R&F Products, Inc. (123 employees, TCR 13.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Laird R&F Products, Inc.
Laird R&F Products, Inc. (123 employees, TCR 13.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Laird R&F Products, Inc. has more employees than the Grommets, rubber, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2023 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2022 2.4 0.8 3 0 0
2018 49.3 32.8 9 0 0
2017 2.0 1.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326299 · CA · Carlsbad

257 Grommets, rubber, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 218 employers in Carlsbad, 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 FT Industries LLC 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Permobil/Roho 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roofing 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR British American Rubber Company LLC 13.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Four Star Fruit 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE CADY2 - 05 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enterprise Vineyards 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE DeBernardi Bros 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thermo Fisher Scientific 2,234 FTE
CITY-NEAR Legoland California Resort 2,055 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bergelectric Corp. CA 1,520 FTE
CITY-NEAR Life Sciences Solutions Group (LSG) Remote Employees 1,350 FTE
NAT-TCR Cascades at Riverwalk 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR McCoys Building Supply-Victoria 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR HG427 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 330255-Asbury Park Po 13.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE PA - Soda Stream 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Briar Place Nursing 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodrich Corporation (Peshtigo WI) 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fort Wayne Corporate 123 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, 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.