Ball bearings manufacturing · California

RBC Bearings Southwest Products Inc.

Baldwin Park, CA · ~48 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

RBC Bearings Southwest Products Inc. runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ball bearings manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

RBC Bearings Southwest Products Inc.: 5.4 TCR = 165% of Ball bearings manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

RBC Bearings Southwest Products Inc. safety composite

RBC Bearings Southwest Products Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 22%), 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 5.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

−2.4

2020→2024

RBC Bearings Southwest Products Inc. injury rate improved

RBC Bearings Southwest Products Inc.'s TCR fell 2.4 from 4.3 in 2020 to 1.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 10.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=4.3 · 2022=10.2 · 2024=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332991 · Baldwin Park, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 165% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #7/12
  • PHOTO Schaeffler Group USA…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Schaeffler Group USA Inc. Joplin (0.0 TCR gap)

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RBC Bearings Southwest Products Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows RBC Bearings Southwest Products Inc. averages 5.4 TCR (165% of the Ball bearings manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

RBC Bearings Southwest Products Inc. TCR series: 2020=4.3 · 2022=10.2 · 2024=1.8 · BLS 3.3

Where RBC Bearings Southwest Products Inc. falls in its industry

125 Ball bearings manufacturing establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 12 Ball bearings manufacturing employers in California.

RBC Bearings Southwest Products Inc. (48 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate RBC Bearings Southwest Products Inc.
RBC Bearings Southwest Products Inc. (48 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 2.8

RBC Bearings Southwest Products Inc. has fewer employees than the Ball bearings manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2022 10.2 8.1 5 0 0
2020 4.3 4.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332991 · CA · Baldwin Park

125 Ball bearings manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 68 employers in Baldwin Park, 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 Schaeffler Group USA Inc. Joplin 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR RBC Lubron Bearing Systems, Inc 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nakanishi Manufacturing Corporation - Winterville GA 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR RBC - Aircraft Products, Inc 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE ARVIN PRODUCTION & ADMIN 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rava Business Park 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guerrero Transportation & Contracting Inc 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE VPS, Inc 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baldwin Park Unified School District 2,575 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08881501 BALDWIN PARK HOSPITAL 1,624 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-08181501 1,555 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAN GABRIEL HUB (CASGA) 1,345 FTE
NAT-TCR KECO 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Nealey Foods Inc 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR DLP Wilson Medical Center - FNS 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 10720 Evergreen Park 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Coppertail Brewing Co. LLC 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reichdrill LLC 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Quality Plating Co. of Tulsa, Inc. 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Glasswater Creek of Plainfield 48 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, 2022, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.