Automotive lighting fixtures manufacturing · California

Soraa Laser Diode, Inc. - Goleta

Goleta, CA · ~74 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Soraa Laser Diode, Inc. - Goleta runs at 19% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Automotive lighting fixtures manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Soraa Laser Diode, Inc. - Goleta: 1.1 TCR = 19% of Automotive lighting fixtures manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Soraa Laser Diode, Inc. - Goleta safety composite

Soraa Laser Diode, Inc. - Goleta scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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 1.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

Soraa Laser Diode, Inc. - Goleta: 0.0 → 0.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Soraa Laser Diode, Inc. - Goleta's TCR rose 0.8 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336320 · Goleta, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 19% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/8
  • PHOTO Michigan Office
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Michigan Office (0.1 TCR gap)

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Soraa Laser Diode, Inc. - Goleta in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Soraa Laser Diode, Inc. - Goleta averages 1.1 TCR (19% of the Automotive lighting fixtures manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Soraa Laser Diode, Inc. - Goleta TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=0.8 · BLS 5.4

Where Soraa Laser Diode, Inc. - Goleta falls in its industry

216 Automotive lighting fixtures m establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 8 Automotive lighting fixtures m employers in California.

Soraa Laser Diode, Inc. - Goleta (74 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 162 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 05001,0001,500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Soraa Laser Diode, Inc. - Goleta
Soraa Laser Diode, Inc. - Goleta (74 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 162 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Soraa Laser Diode, Inc. - Goleta has fewer employees than the Automotive lighting fixtures manufacturi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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
2019 0.8 0.0 0 1 0
2018 2.3 0.0 1 1 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336320 · CA · Goleta

216 Automotive lighting fixtures manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 98 employers in Goleta, 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 Michigan Office 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Aurtowire 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Motorcarparts of America Inc., 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Electronics Plant 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wonderful Orchards-New Columbia 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apricot Lane Farms 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central California Almond Growers (Kerman) 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jose Jesus Garcia Jr 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Goleta_CA_RVS 843 FTE
CITY-NEAR Teledyne FLIR, Goleta 555 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Goleta_CA_EW 437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Apeel Technology, Inc. 375 FTE
NAT-TCR Laticrete - Grand Prairie 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Clinic - Downtown St. Paul 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ACBC 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Northwest Elementary School 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Parker Service Center - Hiawatha 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE BCI Koch Division 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reinke Manufacturing Company, Inc. Belleville, KS Location 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coastal Forest Products - Lumber Operations 74 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: 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.