Engineering design services · California

Means Engineering

Carlsbad, CA · ~77 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Means Engineering runs at 140% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Engineering design services workplace, earning a grade D.

Means Engineering: 4.6 TCR = 140% of Engineering design services BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Means Engineering safety composite

Means Engineering scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

−3.9

2020→2024

Means Engineering injury rate improved

Means Engineering's TCR fell 3.9 from 5.4 in 2020 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=5.4 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=7.3 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333242 · Carlsbad, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 140% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #30/32
  • PHOTO Brooks Automation, I…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Brooks Automation, Inc - Texas (0.1 TCR gap)

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Means Engineering in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Means Engineering averages 4.6 TCR (140% of the Engineering design services BLS benchmark).

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

Means Engineering TCR series: 2020=5.4 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=7.3 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Means Engineering falls in its industry

133 Engineering design services establishments

Safer than 8% 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 #30 safest of 32 Engineering design services employers in California.

Means Engineering (77 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 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 01,0002,0003,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Means Engineering
Means Engineering (77 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 1.2

Means Engineering has fewer employees than the Engineering design services 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
2024 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2023 4.4 4.4 4 0 0
2022 7.3 7.3 3 0 0
2021 4.4 3.0 3 0 0
2020 5.4 5.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333242 · CA · Carlsbad

133 Engineering design services 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 Brooks Automation, Inc - Texas 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eugenus Inc. 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wafab International 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Talon - Tampa 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Innovative Produce, LP 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bokisch Vineyard Management 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bassman 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE COR Chico Business Office 77 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 6207 Manchester Ct 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NPK Construction Equipment 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Smith Contracting Co. Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fidelity Manufacturing 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Woodland 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Double Aught Lumber 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3821 Forest Park Oh 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Conroe Health Care Center 77 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. 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.