Ferrous forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished · California

Lodi Iron Works

Lodi, CA · ~40 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lodi Iron Works runs at 367% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ferrous forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade F.

Lodi Iron Works: 12.1 TCR = 367% of Ferrous forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lodi Iron Works safety composite

Lodi Iron Works scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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 12.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Lodi Iron Works: 5.9 → 18.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 18.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2024

Lodi Iron Works's TCR rose 12.4 from 5.9 in 2018 to 18.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · Lodi, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.1 · 367% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #13/15
  • PHOTO Schaefer Tool and Ma…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Schaefer Tool and Manufacturing Co. Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lodi Iron Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lodi Iron Works averages 12.1 TCR (367% of the Ferrous forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

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

Lodi Iron Works TCR series: 2018=5.9 · 2024=18.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Lodi Iron Works falls in its industry

241 Ferrous forgings made from pur establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 15 Ferrous forgings made from pur employers in California.

Lodi Iron Works (40 employees, TCR 12.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Lodi Iron Works
Lodi Iron Works (40 employees, TCR 12.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Lodi Iron Works has fewer employees than the Ferrous forgings made from purchased iro median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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 18.3 6.1 9 0 0
2018 5.9 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · CA · Lodi

241 Ferrous forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 140 employers in Lodi, 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 Schaefer Tool and Manufacturing Co. Inc. 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Presrite-Jefferson Division 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR BERKELEY FORGE 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bharat Forge PMT 12.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stackhouse Brothers 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE PISTACHIO HARVESTING, INC. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Watsonville/San Juan Bautista 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gomez Growers 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Perez Farming Services Inc. 1,145 FTE
CITY-NEAR 9292-AHLM001 - HOSPITAL 1,030 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-223 910 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 592 890 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 1003 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Whaley Foodservice-Nashville 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rose Steel, Inc. 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Woods Run Forest Products, Inc. 12.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Rapids Service Center 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hopson Specialty Systems 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alco Oberlin 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sheldons' Inc. 40 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, 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.