Erecting structural steel · California

Palm Springs Welding Inc

Palm Springs, CA · ~36 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palm Springs Welding Inc runs at 513% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Erecting structural steel workplace, earning a grade F.

Palm Springs Welding Inc: 14.3 TCR = 513% of Erecting structural steel BLS 2.8 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palm Springs Welding Inc safety composite

Palm Springs Welding Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Palm Springs Welding Inc: 16.5 → 19.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 19.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.15× in 2024

Palm Springs Welding Inc's TCR rose 2.8 from 16.5 in 2017 to 19.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238120 · Palm Springs, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.3 · 513% of ind

  • DART 16.5 DART
  • RANK #94/96
  • PHOTO Rackley Company, INC.
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rackley Company, INC. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Palm Springs Welding Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palm Springs Welding Inc averages 14.3 TCR (513% of the Erecting structural steel BLS benchmark).

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

Palm Springs Welding Inc TCR series: 2017=16.5 · 2018=15.2 · 2019=16.5 · 2020=16.5 · 2021=8.9 · 2022=11 · 2023=11 · 2024=19.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Palm Springs Welding Inc falls in its industry

705 Erecting structural steel establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #94 safest of 96 Erecting structural steel employers in California.

Palm Springs Welding Inc (36 employees, TCR 14.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Palm Springs Welding Inc
Palm Springs Welding Inc (36 employees, TCR 14.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Palm Springs Welding Inc has fewer employees than the Erecting structural steel median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2024 19.2 16.5 6 1 0
2023 11.0 11.0 4 0 0
2022 11.0 11.0 3 1 0
2021 8.9 6.7 4 0 0
2020 16.5 8.2 6 0 0
2019 16.5 16.5 6 0 0
2018 15.2 15.2 6 0 0
2017 16.5 13.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238120 · CA · Palm Springs

705 Erecting structural steel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 114 employers in Palm Springs, 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 Rackley Company, INC. 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin Iron LLC 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Building 2 & 3 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Walls Systems, LLC 14.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE River Garden Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knight Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.H. MEEK & SONS INC. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dirt Farmer and Company 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Desert Regional Medical Center 2,585 FTE
CITY-NEAR 694 DESERT REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,399 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-694 2,273 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Palm Springs 459 FTE
NAT-TCR Van's Lumber & Custom Builders INc. 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR MNM024 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Jefferson's Garden 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR SH - Building D 14.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pan American Grain Company-Fertilizer 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale New Hope 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marie's Movers 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Miami North 36 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, 2021, 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.