Surgical Appliance And Supplies Manufacturing · California

Silicon Valley

Santa Clara, CA · ~290 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Silicon Valley runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Surgical Appliance And Supplies Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Silicon Valley: 3.0 TCR = 92% of Surgical Appliance And Supplies Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Silicon Valley safety composite

Silicon Valley scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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%).

Silicon Valley held a steady TCR band

Silicon Valley's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.6 in 2017 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.6 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=3.0 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339113 · Santa Clara, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #39/65
  • PHOTO Tekna
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~290 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tekna (0.0 TCR gap)

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Silicon Valley in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Silicon Valley averages 3.0 TCR (92% of the Surgical Appliance And Supplies Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Silicon Valley TCR series: 2017=2.6 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=3 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Silicon Valley falls in its industry

555 Surgical Appliance And Supplie establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 65 Surgical Appliance And Supplie employers in California.

Silicon Valley (290 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley (290 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 2.1

Silicon Valley has more employees than the Surgical Appliance And Supplies Manufact median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.1. 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 2.9 2.2 2 6 0
2023 4.4 2.8 2 9 0
2022 3.4 2.1 2 6 0
2021 3.0 2.1 1 6 0
2020 2.5 2.5 0 6 0
2019 2.9 1.7 2 5 0
2018 2.8 1.9 1 5 0
2017 2.6 2.6 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339113 · CA · Santa Clara

555 Surgical Appliance And Supplies Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 332 employers in Santa Clara, 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 Tekna 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cooper Surgical, Inc- Stafford TX 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spyder Manufacturing, Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR PGI INC 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Susanville 290 FTE
STATE-SIZE BCCI Construction, LLC 290 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bayside Interiors Inc. 290 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lancaster Burns Construction, Inc 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mission Campus 6,222 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pure Storage 5,595 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02120751 3,887 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0206-02620751 3,154 FTE
NAT-TCR UNFI - W. Newell & Co., LLC 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sheridan 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR B-Organized Insulation 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR OMNI Fireproofing Systems 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fair Hill 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sterman Masser, Inc. 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bland Farms, LLC 290 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate 290 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, 2022, 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.