Laboratory analytical instruments (except optical) manufacturing · California

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc. SCA

Carlsbad, CA · ~33 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc. SCA runs at 181% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Laboratory analytical instruments (except optical) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc. SCA: 6.0 TCR = 181% of Laboratory analytical instruments (except optical) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc. SCA safety composite

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc. SCA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc. SCA: 3.0 → 8.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 8.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.5× in 2022

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc. SCA's TCR rose 5.9 from 3.0 in 2021 to 8.9 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334516 · Carlsbad, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 181% of ind

  • DART 8.9 DART
  • RANK #50/51
  • PHOTO TechniCoil, LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TechniCoil, LLC (0.2 TCR gap)

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Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc. SCA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc. SCA averages 6.0 TCR (181% of the Laboratory analytical instruments (except optical) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc. SCA TCR series: 2021=3 · 2022=8.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc. SCA falls in its industry

213 Laboratory analytical instrume establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #50 safest of 51 Laboratory analytical instrume employers in California.

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc. SCA (33 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 employees and a TCR of 1.2 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc. SCA
Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc. SCA (33 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 133 employees and a TCR of 1.2

Shimadzu Scientific Instruments, Inc. SCA has fewer employees than the Laboratory analytical instruments (excep median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.2. 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
2022 8.9 8.9 0 3 0
2021 3.0 3.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334516 · CA · Carlsbad

213 Laboratory analytical instruments (except optical) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 218 employers in Carlsbad, 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 TechniCoil, LLC 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ESPEC - CO 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ESPEC - MI 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nexus DX 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tutti Frutti Farms 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE EL CENTRO 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE BULLSEYE FARMS 18 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE River Vista Farms LLC 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thermo Fisher Scientific 2,234 FTE
CITY-NEAR Legoland California Resort 2,055 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bergelectric Corp. CA 1,520 FTE
CITY-NEAR Life Sciences Solutions Group (LSG) Remote Employees 1,350 FTE
NAT-TCR Pride Solvents and Chemical Co of NY, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Fresh Ideas Management- William Jewell College 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Crown Distributing Company 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Saratoga Care Center 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE PCI Aviation, LLC 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE S04231 - MN St Cloud 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Menco Royal, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Supplier Services, LLC 33 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: 2022, 2021. 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.