Sign, building, erection · California

M. Gaw, Inc.

North Hollywood, CA · ~50 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

M. Gaw, Inc. runs at 563% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sign, building, erection workplace, earning a grade F.

M. Gaw, Inc.: 15.8 TCR = 563% of Sign, building, erection BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

M. Gaw, Inc. safety composite

M. Gaw, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

M. Gaw, Inc.: 15.9 → 18.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 28.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2023

M. Gaw, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.0 from 15.9 in 2017 to 18.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 28.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238990 · North Hollywood, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.8 · 563% of ind

  • DART 14.2 DART
  • RANK #169/171
  • PHOTO Solcom, Inc
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 38 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Solcom, Inc (0.1 TCR gap)

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M. Gaw, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows M. Gaw, Inc. averages 15.8 TCR (563% of the Sign, building, erection BLS benchmark).

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

M. Gaw, Inc. TCR series: 2017=15.9 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=12.6 · 2020=28.5 · 2021=15.2 · 2023=18.9 · BLS 2.8

Where M. Gaw, Inc. falls in its industry

1,634 Sign, building, erection establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #169 safest of 171 Sign, building, erection employers in California.

M. Gaw, Inc. (50 employees, TCR 15.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate M. Gaw, Inc.
M. Gaw, Inc. (50 employees, TCR 15.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 52 employees and a TCR of 1.9

M. Gaw, Inc. has fewer employees than the Sign, building, erection median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 18.9 14.2 8 0 0
2021 15.2 12.6 5 1 0
2020 28.5 21.4 8 0 0
2019 12.6 6.3 8 0 0
2018 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2017 15.9 11.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238990 · CA · North Hollywood

1,634 Sign, building, erection employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 121 employers in North Hollywood, 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 Solcom, Inc 15.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WCCI 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Coast Fence, Inc. 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR TEITELBAUM CONCRETE CO 15.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jack Bros., Inc. 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE M Three Ranches, LLC 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Penterman Farming Company 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trefethen Farming, LLC 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 452 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-047 907 FTE
CITY-NEAR SADA Systems LLC 463 FTE
CITY-NEAR Armorcast Products Company 418 FTE
NAT-TCR Cleveringa Farms 15.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CHNK Burlington Residential Campus 15.8 TCR
NAT-TCR C.C. Allis & Sons, Inc. 15.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Williams-White 15.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Construction 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Rotorcraft - PA 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Separators (loc code: SEPARA) 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE GLE-Precision, LLC 50 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, 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.