Chemical gases merchant wholesalers · California

National City - WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc.

National City, CA · ~61 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

National City - WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. runs at 230% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Chemical gases merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

National City - WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc.: 5.1 TCR = 230% of Chemical gases merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

National City - WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. safety composite

National City - WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

F

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

National City - WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc.: 2.0 → 9.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 9.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.82× in 2022

National City - WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc.'s TCR rose 7.2 from 2.0 in 2019 to 9.2 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · National City, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.1 · 230% of ind

  • DART 9.2 DART
  • RANK #60/71
  • PHOTO Avista Technologies,…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Avista Technologies, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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National City - WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows National City - WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. averages 5.1 TCR (230% of the Chemical gases merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

National City - WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. TCR series: 2019=2 · 2020=4 · 2022=9.2 · BLS 2.2

Where National City - WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. falls in its industry

766 Chemical gases merchant wholes establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #60 safest of 71 Chemical gases merchant wholes employers in California.

National City - WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. (61 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate National City - WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc.
National City - WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. (61 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

National City - WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. has more employees than the Chemical gases merchant wholesalers 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
2022 9.2 9.2 5 0 0
2020 4.0 4.0 2 0 0
2019 2.0 2.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · CA · National City

766 Chemical gases merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 100 employers in National City, 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 Avista Technologies, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6728-00030023-1 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3575 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Portland Plant 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Silveira Farms 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE La Brucherie Produce, LLC 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Olds Ranch 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1750 Production Office 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paradise Valley Hospital 1,014 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0908 - CWI OPTICAL LAB - CA 789 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DSD3 701 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5023 489 FTE
NAT-TCR Portland 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Royal Fresh Cuts 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR The Halfway Home of the Lehigh Valley 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Blount County Highway Dept 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Regency Albany 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clinton Hickman County Hospital, Inc. 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG1058 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jowin Express, Inc 61 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: 2022, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.