Drywall hanging · California

Nova Drywall Systems

Costa Mesa, CA · ~177 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nova Drywall Systems runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Drywall hanging workplace, earning a grade D.

Nova Drywall Systems: 3.6 TCR = 129% of Drywall hanging BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nova Drywall Systems safety composite

Nova Drywall Systems scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Nova Drywall Systems: 0.0 → 0.9 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.25× in 2024

Nova Drywall Systems's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.0 in 2020 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238310 · Costa Mesa, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 129% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #112/228
  • PHOTO Stephens Building Pr…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~177 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stephens Building Products (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nova Drywall Systems in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nova Drywall Systems averages 3.6 TCR (129% of the Drywall hanging BLS benchmark).

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

Nova Drywall Systems TCR series: 2020=0 · 2023=9.9 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 2.8

Where Nova Drywall Systems falls in its industry

1,613 Drywall hanging establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #112 safest of 228 Drywall hanging employers in California.

Nova Drywall Systems (177 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Nova Drywall Systems
Nova Drywall Systems (177 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Nova Drywall Systems has more employees than the Drywall hanging median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2023 9.9 7.4 12 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238310 · CA · Costa Mesa

1,613 Drywall hanging employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 185 employers in Costa Mesa, 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 Stephens Building Products 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Centerline Construction Company 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR E&K of Chicago, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Precision Walls Inc-Wilmington 3.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Almond Company LP 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Water District 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alvarado Water Treatment Plant 177 FTE
CITY-NEAR PACIFIC AMPHITHEATER 863 FTE
CITY-NEAR OC Fair & Event Center 861 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Costa Mesa 670 FTE
CITY-NEAR PACWEST Security Services 567 FTE
NAT-TCR Lakeland 10154 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Centerline Construction Company 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Safe Haven Security Services LLC 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Celina Aluminum Precision Technology Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dedicated Casa Grande 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clark Manor 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Adelphi Nursing and Rehabilitation Center LLC 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pratt (Lewisburg Corrugating), LLC 177 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.