Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing · California

Purewick

El Cajon, CA · ~59 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Purewick runs at 21% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Purewick: 0.7 TCR = 21% of Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Purewick safety composite

Purewick scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

Purewick: 0.0 → 1.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 1.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.01× in 2018

Purewick's TCR rose 1.4 from 0.0 in 2017 to 1.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339113 · El Cajon, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 21% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #12/65
  • PHOTO Royal Sterilization …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Royal Sterilization Systems (0.0 TCR gap)

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Purewick in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Purewick averages 0.7 TCR (21% of the Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Purewick TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Purewick falls in its industry

555 Surgical supplies (except medi establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 65 Surgical supplies (except medi employers in California.

Purewick (59 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Purewick
Purewick (59 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Purewick has fewer employees than the Surgical supplies (except medical instru median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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
2018 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339113 · CA · El Cajon

555 Surgical supplies (except medical instruments) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 236 employers in El Cajon, 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 Royal Sterilization Systems 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Axonics 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paragon Medical - Smithfield 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Precision Machining Center 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE DFFF-Salinas 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE LOMA 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.R. AG SOLUTIONS, INC. 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE F&J FERNANDEZ CONTRACTING 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR SOUTHERN REGION : SDU 1,176 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 370 1,148 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Aerospace Chem-tronics 1,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Aerospace Chem Tronics 938 FTE
NAT-TCR Cristal USA, Inc. Plant 2 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Billing Office 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR federal-mogul 1277 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Las Vegas FS (SSS, SLS, CSS) 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Shopko Store #114 (Duluth, MN) 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shopko Store #116 (Sheboygan, WI) 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shopko Store #39 (Lincoln, NE (South)) 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shopko Store #84 (West Jordan, UT) 59 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.