Aluminum forgings made from purchased metals, unfinished · California

Superior Handforge

Santa Fe Springs, CA · ~33 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Superior Handforge runs at 274% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Aluminum forgings made from purchased metals, unfinished workplace, earning a grade F.

Superior Handforge: 9.0 TCR = 274% of Aluminum forgings made from purchased metals, unfinished BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Superior Handforge safety composite

Superior Handforge scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Superior Handforge: 8.4 → 13.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 13.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.73× in 2023

Superior Handforge's TCR rose 4.8 from 8.4 in 2017 to 13.2 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332112 · Santa Fe Springs, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 274% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #14/17
  • PHOTO Ameriforge- Lumberdale
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ameriforge- Lumberdale (0.0 TCR gap)

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Superior Handforge in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Superior Handforge averages 9.0 TCR (274% of the Aluminum forgings made from purchased metals, unfinished BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Superior Handforge TCR series: 2017=8.4 · 2018=6.4 · 2022=8.2 · 2023=13.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Superior Handforge falls in its industry

65 Aluminum forgings made from pu establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 17 Aluminum forgings made from pu employers in California.

Superior Handforge (33 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 90 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Superior Handforge
Superior Handforge (33 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 90 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Superior Handforge has fewer employees than the Aluminum forgings made from purchased me median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2023 13.2 6.6 6 0 0
2022 8.2 2.7 3 0 0
2018 6.4 6.4 2 0 0
2017 8.4 8.4 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332112 · CA · Santa Fe Springs

65 Aluminum forgings made from purchased metals, unfinished employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 310 employers in Santa Fe Springs, 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 Ameriforge- Lumberdale 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aluminum Precision Products Alton 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wright Tool 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Doncasters Storms Forge 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Astoria at Oakdale, LLC 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Trillium Enterprises INc 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1066 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE TRH012 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 423 3,217 FTE
CITY-NEAR CSI Electrical Contractors, Inc. 1,217 FTE
CITY-NEAR CSI 1,179 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vans Distribution Center - SFS 757 FTE
NAT-TCR Mt. View Care & Rehabilitation Center 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Commonwealth Gin 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Waterford at College Station 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Riverstone 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rocky Mountain Air Solutions- Denver, CO 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fulton FS, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wells and West General Contractors, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Al Serra Honda of Grand Blanc 33 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: 2023, 2022, 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.