Fittings and unions, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing · California

Spears Santa Paula

Santa Paula, CA · ~123 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Spears Santa Paula runs at 120% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fittings and unions, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Spears Santa Paula: 4.0 TCR = 120% of Fittings and unions, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Spears Santa Paula safety composite

Spears Santa Paula scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 39%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

−2.6

2023→2024

Spears Santa Paula injury rate improved

Spears Santa Paula's TCR fell 2.6 from 5.3 in 2023 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.3 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326122 · Santa Paula, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 120% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #7/12
  • PHOTO Prinsco, Inc. - Beth…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Prinsco, Inc. - Bethany (0.0 TCR gap)

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Spears Santa Paula in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Spears Santa Paula averages 4.0 TCR (120% of the Fittings and unions, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Spears Santa Paula TCR series: 2023=5.3 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Spears Santa Paula falls in its industry

332 Fittings and unions, rigid pla establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

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 12 Fittings and unions, rigid pla employers in California.

Spears Santa Paula (123 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Spears Santa Paula
Spears Santa Paula (123 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Spears Santa Paula has more employees than the Fittings and unions, rigid plastics pipe median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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 2.6 2.6 3 0 0
2023 5.3 5.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326122 · CA · Santa Paula

332 Fittings and unions, rigid plastics pipe, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 45 employers in Santa Paula, 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 Prinsco, Inc. - Bethany 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atkore Plastic Pipe 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR IPG - Endicott Mills Ave 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prinsco, Inc.-Beresford 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Four Star Fruit 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE CADY2 - 05 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enterprise Vineyards 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE DeBernardi Bros 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 203 2,546 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hot Line Construction Santa Paula 272 FTE
CITY-NEAR TLF 211 FTE
CITY-NEAR SantaPaulaHospital 173 FTE
NAT-TCR Techmetals, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR James T Warring Sons Inc 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Center City Housing Corp. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant 799 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Building Automation Products Inc 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eggs - Big Lake MN 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acorn Electrical Specialists, Inc 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cedar Valley Corp LLC 123 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.