Machine shops · California

Tapemation Machining Inc

Scotts Valley, CA · ~25 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tapemation Machining Inc runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade D.

Tapemation Machining Inc: 5.1 TCR = 154% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tapemation Machining Inc safety composite

Tapemation Machining Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

Tapemation Machining Inc: 0.0 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Tapemation Machining Inc's TCR rose 8.1 from 0.0 in 2018 to 8.1 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Scotts Valley, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 154% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #89/126
  • PHOTO Quality Mould Inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Quality Mould Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tapemation Machining Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tapemation Machining Inc averages 5.1 TCR (154% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Tapemation Machining Inc TCR series: 2018=0 · 2020=7.1 · 2021=8.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Tapemation Machining Inc falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #89 safest of 126 Machine shops employers in California.

Tapemation Machining Inc (25 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Tapemation Machining Inc
Tapemation Machining Inc (25 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Tapemation Machining Inc has fewer employees than the Machine shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 8.1 0.0 2 0 0
2020 7.1 7.1 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · CA · Scotts Valley

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 34 employers in Scotts Valley, 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 Quality Mould Inc 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glunt Industries Plant 1 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR NA-US-CA-Lathrop-Harlan Road 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lincoln Park Boring Co. 5.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Conservation Farms Ranches 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE GM Ag Services, Inc. 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farm Shop 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dougherty Brothers 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Threshold Enterprises 497 FTE
CITY-NEAR Central California Alliance for Health Scotts Valley 380 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bay Photo, Inc 340 FTE
CITY-NEAR Zero Motorcycles inc. 302 FTE
NAT-TCR Transteck Inc. - Harrisburg 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Unicep Packaging, Spokane 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bethesda Health and Rehabilitation Center 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bowser-Regal, Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Save-A-Lot Labelle - 3937 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shorts tool & mfg inc. 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Duluth Shop and Fleet 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colorado Bend 1 Power 25 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, 2018. 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.