Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished · California

Shultz Steel LLC

South Gate, CA · ~298 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shultz Steel LLC runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished workplace, earning a grade B.

Shultz Steel LLC: 1.7 TCR = 52% of Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shultz Steel LLC safety composite

Shultz Steel LLC scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 87% 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% 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

−3.4

2017→2024

Shultz Steel LLC injury rate improved

Shultz Steel LLC's TCR fell 3.4 from 4.0 in 2017 to 0.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.0 · 2021=0.9 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=0.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332111 · South Gate, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 52% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #2/15
  • PHOTO Carlton Forge Works
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~298 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carlton Forge Works (0.1 TCR gap)

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Shultz Steel LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shultz Steel LLC averages 1.7 TCR (52% of the Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished BLS benchmark).

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

Shultz Steel LLC TCR series: 2017=4 · 2021=0.9 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=0.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Shultz Steel LLC falls in its industry

241 Cold forgings made from purcha establishments

Safer than 87% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 15 Cold forgings made from purcha employers in California.

Shultz Steel LLC (298 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Shultz Steel LLC
Shultz Steel LLC (298 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 86 employees and a TCR of 5.0

Shultz Steel LLC has more employees than the Cold forgings made from purchased iron o median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.0. 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 0.6 0.3 2 0 0
2023 1.4 1.4 4 0 0
2021 0.9 0.9 2 0 0
2017 4.0 2.5 15 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332111 · CA · South Gate

241 Cold forgings made from purchased iron or steel, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 75 employers in South Gate, 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 Carlton Forge Works 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Forged Components, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steel Industries - Plant 4 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Texas Metal Works 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gustine 298 FTE
STATE-SIZE Build Group, Inc. 298 FTE
STATE-SIZE Teichert Construction Stockton 298 FTE
STATE-SIZE Day Lee Food, Inc. 298 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-027 908 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Gate, CA - 5650 Southern 792 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3180 587 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3180 573 FTE
NAT-TCR North Raleigh Operations 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Thompson Nashville 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR T.K.M.S., LLC 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Evonik Corporation Tippecanoe Laboratories 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE North Carolina Specialty Hospital 298 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coltene/Whaledent, Inc. 298 FTE
NAT-SIZE Intermountain Nutrition 298 FTE
NAT-SIZE EPT Integrity Asset Management LLC 298 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, 2023, 2021, 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.