Roof trusses, wood, manufacturing · California

Spates Fabricators Inc

Thermal, CA · ~248 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Spates Fabricators Inc runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Roof trusses, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Spates Fabricators Inc: 5.4 TCR = 163% of Roof trusses, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Spates Fabricators Inc safety composite

Spates Fabricators Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.4

2017→2018

Spates Fabricators Inc injury rate improved

Spates Fabricators Inc's TCR fell 4.4 from 7.6 in 2017 to 3.2 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.6 · 2018=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321214 · Thermal, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 163% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #7/20
  • PHOTO KAC PARTNERS LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~248 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KAC PARTNERS LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Spates Fabricators Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Spates Fabricators Inc averages 5.4 TCR (163% of the Roof trusses, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Spates Fabricators Inc TCR series: 2017=7.6 · 2018=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Spates Fabricators Inc falls in its industry

421 Roof trusses, wood, manufactur establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 20 Roof trusses, wood, manufactur employers in California.

Spates Fabricators Inc (248 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 7.0 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Spates Fabricators Inc
Spates Fabricators Inc (248 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 7.0

Spates Fabricators Inc has more employees than the Roof trusses, wood, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.0. 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
2018 3.2 3.2 9 0 0
2017 7.6 5.3 19 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321214 · CA · Thermal

421 Roof trusses, wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 19 employers in Thermal, 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 KAC PARTNERS LLC 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Noltex Truss Gatesville, Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Component Manufacturing Company - Plant 2 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1371 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Saticoy Berry Farms, Inc. 248 FTE
STATE-SIZE west coast custom harvesting i 248 FTE
STATE-SIZE RC PACKING 248 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dr. Bronner's Vista Plant 248 FTE
CITY-NEAR EKSC CORPORATION 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR Desert Infinity, Inc. 406 FTE
CITY-NEAR LB HARVESTING INC. 252 FTE
CITY-NEAR El Espinal FLC 161 FTE
NAT-TCR Heritage House 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Bell PA 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR QSI Pendergrass 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Heartland Health Care Center - Jacksonville 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4795-PD-ROA-ROANOKE-PD 248 FTE
NAT-SIZE TX.HOUST.406 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. 248 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tallahassee Center (Fltal) 248 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spring Valley (Nyspv) 248 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: 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.