Abrasive products manufacturing · California

Plamar USA, Inc

Union City, CA · ~55 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plamar USA, Inc runs at 453% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Abrasive products manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Plamar USA, Inc: 14.9 TCR = 453% of Abrasive products manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plamar USA, Inc safety composite

Plamar USA, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

−15.0

2018→2019

Plamar USA, Inc injury rate improved

Plamar USA, Inc's TCR fell 15.0 from 22.4 in 2018 to 7.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 22.4 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=22.4 · 2019=7.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327910 · Union City, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.9 · 453% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO Ervin Amasteel-Butle…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ervin Amasteel-Butler Plant (1.5 TCR gap)

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Plamar USA, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plamar USA, Inc averages 14.9 TCR (453% of the Abrasive products manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Plamar USA, Inc TCR series: 2018=22.4 · 2019=7.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Plamar USA, Inc falls in its industry

90 Abrasive products manufacturin establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Abrasive products manufacturin employers in California.

Plamar USA, Inc (55 employees, TCR 14.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Plamar USA, Inc
Plamar USA, Inc (55 employees, TCR 14.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Plamar USA, Inc has fewer employees than the Abrasive products manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2019 7.5 1.9 4 0 0
2018 22.4 12.8 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327910 · CA · Union City

90 Abrasive products manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 142 employers in Union City, 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 Ervin Amasteel-Butler Plant 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carbide Industries, LLC 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gardner Abrasives 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Imerys Fused Minerals Niagara Falls, Inc. 12.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE FARMING ADMINISTRATION 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dwelley Family Farms LLC 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-Valley Vineyard Management 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cornerstone Certified Vineyard 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR Carson Consulting Corp 953 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zoetis LLC 646 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4818-48180003-33321 DOWE AVE-WC 597 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zoetis (Formerly Abaxis) 563 FTE
NAT-TCR Traverse City Hospice 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Spee-Dee Delivery Service, Inc. - Minot 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 19-Brisas De Bayamon 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Thompson Fab 14.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE ChevronPhillips Pasadena TX - BSL 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE GDS International LLC. 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Essi, LLC 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Woolpert- Denver 55 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: 2019, 2018. 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.