Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing · California

Norman, Fox & Co. Vernon, CA

Vernon, CA · ~19 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Norman, Fox & Co. Vernon, CA runs at 442% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Norman, Fox & Co. Vernon, CA: 14.6 TCR = 442% of Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Norman, Fox & Co. Vernon, CA safety composite

Norman, Fox & Co. Vernon, CA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Norman, Fox & Co. Vernon, CA: 0.0 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 40.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.32× in 2024

Norman, Fox & Co. Vernon, CA's TCR rose 4.7 from 0.0 in 2017 to 4.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 40.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325611 · Vernon, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.6 · 442% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #16/16
  • PHOTO Botanie Natural Soap…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Botanie Natural Soap Inc (0.8 TCR gap)

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Norman, Fox & Co. Vernon, CA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Norman, Fox & Co. Vernon, CA averages 14.6 TCR (442% of the Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Norman, Fox & Co. Vernon, CA TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=25.9 · 2019=0 · 2020=18.4 · 2021=12 · 2022=40.8 · 2023=15.1 · 2024=4.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Norman, Fox & Co. Vernon, CA falls in its industry

240 Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 16 Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid employers in California.

Norman, Fox & Co. Vernon, CA (19 employees, TCR 14.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Norman, Fox & Co. Vernon, CA
Norman, Fox & Co. Vernon, CA (19 employees, TCR 14.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Norman, Fox & Co. Vernon, CA has fewer employees than the Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) ma median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 4.7 4.7 1 0 0
2023 15.1 15.1 3 0 0
2022 40.8 40.8 4 4 0
2021 12.0 12.0 1 1 0
2020 18.4 18.4 3 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 25.9 25.9 3 1 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325611 · CA · Vernon

240 Hand soaps (e.g., hard, liquid, soft) manufacturing 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. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Botanie Natural Soap Inc 15.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stinger Chemical 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Buff City Soap 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Royal Chemical 12.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE A. OSEGUERA CO., INC. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE TEIXEIRA FARMS INC 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Golden R, Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE PEDRAZZI FARMS 19 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 Heritage Woods of Plainfield 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR BlackFish Enterprises LLC 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR BIC Construction 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bremerton Ambulance 14.6 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.