Medical Device Manufacturer · California

Nihon Kohden America llc

Irvine, CA · ~495 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nihon Kohden America llc runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Medical Device Manufacturer workplace, earning a grade A.

Nihon Kohden America llc: 1.6 TCR = 48% of Medical Device Manufacturer BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nihon Kohden America llc safety composite

Nihon Kohden America llc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.6

2022→2024

Nihon Kohden America llc injury rate improved

Nihon Kohden America llc's TCR fell 1.6 from 2.8 in 2022 to 1.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.8 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=1.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334510 · Irvine, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 48% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #29/51
  • PHOTO Advanced Bionics Val…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~495 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Advanced Bionics Valencia (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nihon Kohden America llc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nihon Kohden America llc averages 1.6 TCR (48% of the Medical Device Manufacturer BLS benchmark).

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

Nihon Kohden America llc TCR series: 2022=2.8 · 2023=0.9 · 2024=1.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Nihon Kohden America llc falls in its industry

242 Medical Device Manufacturer establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 51 Medical Device Manufacturer employers in California.

Nihon Kohden America llc (495 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 186 employees and a TCR of 1.1 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Nihon Kohden America llc
Nihon Kohden America llc (495 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 186 employees and a TCR of 1.1

Nihon Kohden America llc has more employees than the Medical Device Manufacturer median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.1. 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 1.1 0.2 5 0 0
2023 0.9 0.9 4 0 0
2022 2.8 2.8 6 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334510 · CA · Irvine

242 Medical Device Manufacturer employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 622 employers in Irvine, 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 Advanced Bionics Valencia 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Suneva Medical 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Electromed Inc 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Olsen Medical 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE REYES AG ENTERPRISE, INC. 495 FTE
STATE-SIZE ATK Space Systems Inc - San Diego 495 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1862 495 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMZL : DPS3 495 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Irvine 16,029 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-10 4,926 FTE
CITY-NEAR Edwards Lifesciences 4,189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson and Johnson MDD CSS Irvine 3,775 FTE
NAT-TCR 55616 University of Chicago 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 4006 Salem or 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Imold, LLC. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cedarbrook Village 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE One Liberty Plaza 495 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wheeler Clinic 495 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unique Industries - Blairs 495 FTE
NAT-SIZE Deepwell Energy Services LLC. 495 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. 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.