Laser diodes manufacturing · California

MKS Santa Clara

Santa Clara, CA · ~339 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

MKS Santa Clara runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Laser diodes manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

MKS Santa Clara: 2.0 TCR = 60% of Laser diodes manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

MKS Santa Clara safety composite

MKS Santa Clara scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 1.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.7

2017→2020

MKS Santa Clara injury rate improved

MKS Santa Clara's TCR fell 0.7 from 2.2 in 2017 to 1.6 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.2 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.2 · 2018=2.0 · 2019=2.2 · 2020=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334413 · Santa Clara, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 60% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #104/128
  • PHOTO FormFactor Inc. Live…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~339 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FormFactor Inc. Livermore, CA (0.0 TCR gap)

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MKS Santa Clara in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows MKS Santa Clara averages 2.0 TCR (60% of the Laser diodes manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

MKS Santa Clara TCR series: 2017=2.2 · 2018=2 · 2019=2.2 · 2020=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where MKS Santa Clara falls in its industry

437 Laser diodes manufacturing establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #104 safest of 128 Laser diodes manufacturing employers in California.

MKS Santa Clara (339 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 216 employees and a TCR of 0.9 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0246 Average employees Total Case Rate MKS Santa Clara
MKS Santa Clara (339 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 216 employees and a TCR of 0.9

MKS Santa Clara has more employees than the Laser diodes manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.9. 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
2020 1.6 0.6 5 0 0
2019 2.2 0.8 8 0 0
2018 2.0 1.4 7 0 0
2017 2.2 2.2 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334413 · CA · Santa Clara

437 Laser diodes manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 332 employers in Santa Clara, 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 FormFactor Inc. Livermore, CA 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Skyworks Solutions, Inc. - Basking Ridge, NJ 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mattson Technology, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Axsun Technologies 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE CENTRAL COAST LABOR MANAGEMENT INC 339 FTE
STATE-SIZE Foothill Fire Protection, Inc 339 FTE
STATE-SIZE ARDx San Diego Summers Ridge 339 FTE
STATE-SIZE PacBio Menlo Park 339 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mission Campus 6,222 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pure Storage 5,595 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02120751 3,887 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0206-02620751 3,154 FTE
NAT-TCR McCain Plover Infinity Foods Inc 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR T.E. Reilly, Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 1690 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 776 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Market Directors 339 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alpine Meijer 339 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jackson, WI. 339 FTE
NAT-SIZE 840 N Broadway 339 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: 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.