Shot peening metal and metal products for the trade · California

Metal Improvement Company- Lynwood

Lynwood, CA · ~24 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Metal Improvement Company- Lynwood runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Shot peening metal and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade D.

Metal Improvement Company- Lynwood: 6.0 TCR = 183% of Shot peening metal and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Metal Improvement Company- Lynwood safety composite

Metal Improvement Company- Lynwood scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Metal Improvement Company- Lynwood: 4.3 → 18.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 18.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2.07× in 2024

Metal Improvement Company- Lynwood's TCR rose 14.4 from 4.3 in 2016 to 18.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332811 · Lynwood, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 183% of ind

  • DART 12.5 DART
  • RANK #13/14
  • PHOTO Braddock Metallurgic…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Braddock Metallurgical-Daytona, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Metal Improvement Company- Lynwood in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Metal Improvement Company- Lynwood averages 6.0 TCR (183% of the Shot peening metal and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Metal Improvement Company- Lynwood TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2017=5.1 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=8.5 · 2020=3.7 · 2021=0 · 2022=10.7 · 2023=0 · 2024=18.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Metal Improvement Company- Lynwood falls in its industry

248 Shot peening metal and metal p establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

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 14 Shot peening metal and metal p employers in California.

Metal Improvement Company- Lynwood (24 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Metal Improvement Company- Lynwood
Metal Improvement Company- Lynwood (24 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Metal Improvement Company- Lynwood has fewer employees than the Shot peening metal and metal products fo median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 18.7 12.5 2 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 10.7 10.7 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2019 8.5 5.7 3 0 0
2018 3.5 3.5 1 0 0
2017 5.1 5.1 1 0 0
2016 4.3 4.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332811 · CA · Lynwood

248 Shot peening metal and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 52 employers in Lynwood, 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 Braddock Metallurgical-Daytona, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metal Improvement Company LLC 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Accurate Brazing Corporation 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hudapack Metal Treating Inc 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Agro-Jal Farming Enterprises 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE MTD Farms 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marc Pura Ranch, LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Costa Farms 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0010-00100008 1,965 FTE
CITY-NEAR PL Developments 174 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jones Wholesale Lumber Company, Inc. 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Lynwood 165 FTE
NAT-TCR TES, Inc. AmishView Inn & Suites 121 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Knoxville - 11 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Redner's Warehouse Market Langhorne 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Owens & Minor Atlanta 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fulton Food Rite 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE 52nd Logistics 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kenron Main 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meriter West Washington 24 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.