Lead smelting and refining, primary · California

Quemetco INC

City of Industry, CA · ~248 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Quemetco INC runs at 88% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Lead smelting and refining, primary workplace, earning a grade C.

Quemetco INC: 2.9 TCR = 88% of Lead smelting and refining, primary BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Quemetco INC safety composite

Quemetco INC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.8

2019→2020

Quemetco INC injury rate improved

Quemetco INC's TCR fell 2.8 from 4.3 in 2019 to 1.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.3 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.3 · 2020=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331410 · City of Industry, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 88% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK P58
  • PHOTO Global Tungsten and …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~248 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Global Tungsten and Powders Corp. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Quemetco INC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Quemetco INC averages 2.9 TCR (88% of the Lead smelting and refining, primary BLS benchmark).

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

Quemetco INC TCR series: 2019=4.3 · 2020=1.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Quemetco INC falls in its industry

57 Lead smelting and refining, pr establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Quemetco INC (248 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Quemetco INC
Quemetco INC (248 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Quemetco INC has more employees than the Lead smelting and refining, primary median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2020 1.5 1.1 3 1 0
2019 4.3 2.3 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331410 · CA · City of Industry

57 Lead smelting and refining, primary employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 226 employers in City of Industry, 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 Global Tungsten and Powders Corp. 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Belmont Metals Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zircoa 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Muller Copper Line Sets 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Saticoy Berry Farms, Inc. 248 FTE
STATE-SIZE west coast custom harvesting i 248 FTE
STATE-SIZE RC PACKING 248 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spates Fabricators Inc 248 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morrow-Meadows Corporation 1,879 FTE
CITY-NEAR 050109-INDUSTRY CA P&DC 781 FTE
CITY-NEAR INDUSTRY_1441491 704 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kellwood Apparel, LLC 489 FTE
NAT-TCR Atlantic Shutters 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Continental Structural Plastics of Louisiana 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Tekgard, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Universal Forest Products plant 380 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Meijer Store 137 248 FTE
NAT-SIZE Veterans Victory House 248 FTE
NAT-SIZE Continental Structural Plastics - Conneaut 248 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Estates at Carpenters 248 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.