Aircraft maintenance and repair services (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) · California

PKL Services, VX9

Ridgecrest, CA · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

PKL Services, VX9 runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Aircraft maintenance and repair services (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) workplace, earning a grade D.

PKL Services, VX9: 7.5 TCR = 168% of Aircraft maintenance and repair services (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

PKL Services, VX9 safety composite

PKL Services, VX9 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

−120.7

2022→2023

PKL Services, VX9 injury rate improved

PKL Services, VX9's TCR fell 120.7 from 128.2 in 2022 to 7.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 128.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=128.2 · 2023=7.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488190 · Ridgecrest, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.5 · 168% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #99/120
  • PHOTO Signature Flight Sup…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Signature Flight Support Miami - OPF (0.0 TCR gap)

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PKL Services, VX9 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows PKL Services, VX9 averages 7.5 TCR (168% of the Aircraft maintenance and repair services (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) BLS benchmark).

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

PKL Services, VX9 TCR series: 2022=128.2 · 2023=7.5 · BLS 4.5

Where PKL Services, VX9 falls in its industry

992 Aircraft maintenance and repai establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #99 safest of 120 Aircraft maintenance and repai employers in California.

PKL Services, VX9 (27 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate PKL Services, VX9
PKL Services, VX9 (27 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 3.2

PKL Services, VX9 has fewer employees than the Aircraft maintenance and repair services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2023 7.5 7.5 3 1 0
2022 128.2 32.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488190 · CA · Ridgecrest

992 Aircraft maintenance and repair services (except factory conversion, factory overhaul, factory rebuilding) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 29 employers in Ridgecrest, 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 Signature Flight Support Miami - OPF 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SAN 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR PDX-ITP 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Aviation - San Jose 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE HQ 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Medeiros Farms Vineyards 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE SAND RANCH 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE San Bernabe Vineyards 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ridgecrest Regional Hospital 731 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1600 347 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1600 346 FTE
CITY-NEAR Desert Area Resources and Training 107 FTE
NAT-TCR OUI 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Monticello Flooring & Lumber Co 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Pearson Builders Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Shade Tree Co. Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ary Brothers Trucking 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peters Body Shop 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coastal Center for Developmental Services, Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Altorfer Inc. - Cedar Rapids, IA - 6605 6th Street SW 27 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.