Painting and wallpapering · California

SDP dba EmpireWorks

Irvine, CA · ~101 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SDP dba EmpireWorks runs at 362% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Painting and wallpapering workplace, earning a grade F.

SDP dba EmpireWorks: 10.1 TCR = 362% of Painting and wallpapering BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SDP dba EmpireWorks safety composite

SDP dba EmpireWorks scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

−5.6

2017→2021

SDP dba EmpireWorks injury rate improved

SDP dba EmpireWorks's TCR fell 5.6 from 8.8 in 2017 to 3.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 17.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.8 · 2018=13.9 · 2019=7.6 · 2020=17.0 · 2021=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238320 · Irvine, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 362% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #105/124
  • PHOTO Select Painting
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~101 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Select Painting (0.2 TCR gap)

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SDP dba EmpireWorks in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SDP dba EmpireWorks averages 10.1 TCR (362% of the Painting and wallpapering BLS benchmark).

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

SDP dba EmpireWorks TCR series: 2017=8.8 · 2018=13.9 · 2019=7.6 · 2020=17 · 2021=3.3 · BLS 2.8

Where SDP dba EmpireWorks falls in its industry

582 Painting and wallpapering establishments

Safer than 8% 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 #105 safest of 124 Painting and wallpapering employers in California.

SDP dba EmpireWorks (101 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate SDP dba EmpireWorks
SDP dba EmpireWorks (101 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8

SDP dba EmpireWorks has more employees than the Painting and wallpapering 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
2021 3.3 2.7 6 0 0
2020 17.0 15.9 15 0 0
2019 7.6 5.1 4 2 0
2018 13.9 13.9 14 0 0
2017 8.8 6.6 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238320 · CA · Irvine

582 Painting and wallpapering employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 622 employers in Irvine, 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 Select Painting 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR All Bay Paint 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pecoraro, Inc. 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Profection Painting, Inc 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kirschenmann Farms, Inc 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE M & R Company 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Sun Grower Services 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Camacho FLC, Inc 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Irvine 16,029 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-10 4,926 FTE
CITY-NEAR Edwards Lifesciences 4,189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson and Johnson MDD CSS Irvine 3,775 FTE
NAT-TCR Birmingham Division Hueytown Crew Headquarters 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Titan Talent Development, LLC. 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 7551-Enphg-Lycoming College 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 198359-Sha-Indian Creek Br 10.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Timbers Skilled Nursing and Therapy 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Scott Regional Hospital 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nouryon (LeMoyne Site) 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Laddawn, Inc. Sterling, MA 101 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.