Home theater audio and video equipment manufacturing · California

Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc

Name: Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Berkeley, CA · ~14 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.1
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc runs at 214% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Home theater audio and video equipment manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc: 7.1 TCR = 214% of Home theater audio and video equipment manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc safety composite

Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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).

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers
DART rate: F 2.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc: 7.1 → 112.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 112.2 TCR · DART/TCR 5.3× in 2018

Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc's TCR rose 105.1 from 7.1 in 2017 to 112.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 5.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334310 · Berkeley, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 214% of ind

DART 37.4 DART
RANK #7/7
PHOTO US Screen Corporation
BOOK 2y book
INJ 25 inj
SIZE ~14 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: US Screen Corporation (0.8 TCR gap)

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Biamp Chester

8.3
This site

7.1
US Screen Corp

6.3
Fulcrum Acoust

6
Loudspeaker Co

5.4

What this shows Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc averages 7.1 TCR (214% of the Home theater audio and video equipment manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc TCR series: 2017=7.1 · 2018=112.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc falls in its industry

56 Home theater audio and video e establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

Grade F

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 7 Home theater audio and video e employers in California.

Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc (14 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 121 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Meyer Sound Laboratories, Inc has fewer employees than the Home theater audio and video equipment m 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
2018	112.2	37.4	15	0	0
2017	7.1	2.9	10	2	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334310 · CA · Berkeley

56 Home theater audio and video equipment manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 120 employers in Berkeley, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	US Screen Corporation	AUSTIN, TX	6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Fulcrum Acoustic, LLC	WHITINSVILLE, MA	6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Biamp Chester	CHESTER, PA	8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Loudspeaker Components	LANCASTER, WI	5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Beckstoffer Vineyards - Mendocino	UKIAH	14 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Shafter Wasco Investment Co., Inc.	SHAFTER	14 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Bixler	STOCKTON	14 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Hofstee Farms	TIPTON	14 FTE
CITY-NEAR	UC Berkeley	Berkeley	22,120 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (213-ABH)	Berkeley	1,998 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Sutter Bay Hospitals (30391)	Berkeley	1,917 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Berkeley, CA	Berkeley	1,106 FTE
NAT-TCR	Denver Heating & Air Conditioning	Sheridan, CO	7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	ZF Gainesville-03	Flowery Branch, GA	7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Hilldrup Companies - Raleigh 754	Durham, NC	7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	KW Maintenance Services South Bend, LLC	South Bend, IN	7.1 TCR

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.