Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing · California

SO California Technical Arts

Irvine, CA · ~70 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SO California Technical Arts runs at 41% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

SO California Technical Arts: 1.4 TCR = 41% of Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SO California Technical Arts safety composite

SO California Technical Arts scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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%).

Rising injury rate

SO California Technical Arts: 0.0 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 2.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2021

SO California Technical Arts's TCR rose 2.7 from 0.0 in 2020 to 2.7 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332322 · Irvine, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.4 · 41% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #8/98
  • PHOTO Liberty Sheet Metal,…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Liberty Sheet Metal, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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SO California Technical Arts in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SO California Technical Arts averages 1.4 TCR (41% of the Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

SO California Technical Arts TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where SO California Technical Arts falls in its industry

1,158 Air cowls, sheet metal (except establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 98 Air cowls, sheet metal (except employers in California.

SO California Technical Arts (70 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate SO California Technical Arts
SO California Technical Arts (70 employees, TCR 1.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5

SO California Technical Arts has more employees than the Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 2.7 1.4 2 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332322 · CA · Irvine

1,158 Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing 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 Liberty Sheet Metal, Inc. 1.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR CUTTING EDGE LASER MACHINING, INC. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR JNL STEEL COMPONENTS, INC. 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clark Specialty Co., Inc. 1.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Heritage Land Company 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ceballos Ag Services, Inc. 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRTHN 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE EW Merritt Farms 70 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 Howden American Fan Company 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 150-Mobile 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookshires #017 1.4 TCR
NAT-TCR PDC Brightpoint All Points LLC 1.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Community Nursing Home, Inc. 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Bend - Streets & Fleet 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Shore Chevrolet LLC 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crowne Plaza Memphis Downtown 70 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. 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.