Commercial building construction general contractors · California

SMA Builders

Van Nuys, CA · ~84 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SMA Builders runs at 272% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Commercial building construction general contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

SMA Builders: 7.9 TCR = 272% of Commercial building construction general contractors BLS 2.9 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SMA Builders safety composite

SMA Builders scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

−4.2

2023→2024

SMA Builders injury rate improved

SMA Builders's TCR fell 4.2 from 10.0 in 2023 to 5.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=10.0 · 2024=5.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Van Nuys, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 272% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #433/486
  • PHOTO Groom Construction C…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Groom Construction Co Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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SMA Builders in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SMA Builders averages 7.9 TCR (272% of the Commercial building construction general contractors BLS benchmark).

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

SMA Builders TCR series: 2023=10 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 2.9

Where SMA Builders falls in its industry

4,692 Commercial building constructi establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #433 safest of 486 Commercial building constructi employers in California.

SMA Builders (84 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate SMA Builders
SMA Builders (84 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

SMA Builders has more employees than the Commercial building construction general median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 5.8 4.6 5 0 0
2023 10.0 10.0 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · CA · Van Nuys

4,692 Commercial building construction general contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 192 employers in Van Nuys, 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 Groom Construction Co Inc. 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR H&W Construction Co. Inc. 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ventura 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Highpoint Apartments 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE montalvo farms 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hansen Custom Farming, LLC 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hilarides Dairy 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE McIntyre Labor Service, LLC. 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley Presbyterian Hospital 1,686 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-048 909 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-063 909 FTE
CITY-NEAR VAN NUYS HUB (CAVAN) 864 FTE
NAT-TCR Vanew - Newport News 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Vasfk - Suffolk Village 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Nyhen - Henrietta 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Olson Aluminum Castings 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Insteel Wire Products FLS 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zeigler North Riverside 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE 205 Carlyle Avenue 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carter Lumber 450 84 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.