Shot peening metal and metal products for the trade · California

Metal Improvement Company- Vernon

Vernon, CA · ~23 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Metal Improvement Company- Vernon runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Shot peening metal and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade C.

Metal Improvement Company- Vernon: 3.3 TCR = 101% of Shot peening metal and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Metal Improvement Company- Vernon safety composite

Metal Improvement Company- Vernon scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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- Vernon: 0.0 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2018

Metal Improvement Company- Vernon's TCR rose 6.7 from 0.0 in 2017 to 6.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 101% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #7/14
  • PHOTO Bluewater Thermal So…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bluewater Thermal Solutions - Saint Mary's (0.0 TCR gap)

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Metal Improvement Company- Vernon in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Metal Improvement Company- Vernon averages 3.3 TCR (101% 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- Vernon TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=6.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Metal Improvement Company- Vernon falls in its industry

248 Shot peening metal and metal p establishments

Safer than 61% 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 #7 safest of 14 Shot peening metal and metal p employers in California.

Metal Improvement Company- Vernon (23 employees, TCR 3.3) 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- Vernon
Metal Improvement Company- Vernon (23 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Metal Improvement Company- Vernon has fewer employees than the Shot peening metal and metal products fo median and a lower 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
2018 6.7 6.7 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332811 · CA · Vernon

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 · 146 employers in Vernon, 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 Bluewater Thermal Solutions - Saint Mary's 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Good Earth Tools 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Solar Atmospheres Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lone Star Heat Treating Corporation 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE James Diedrich Farms 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-Fanucchi Farms,LLC 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE KAN2 - 04 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kyer Farms 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods, Inc. - Vernon, CA 1,633 FTE
CITY-NEAR GRANDE VISTA (CAGVS) 1,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAGVS - GRANDE VISTA 1,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods - Vernon 984 FTE
NAT-TCR Springfield 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR DeWal Industries 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fresenius Medical Care 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Metals USA Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hawkeye Ready Mix Coralville 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dayton CPC 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE D.G.M., Inc. 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Residence inn Carmel 23 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: 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.