Machine bases, metal, manufacturing · California

UCT-South San Francisco

South San Francisco, CA · ~47 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

UCT-South San Francisco runs at 162% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Machine bases, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

UCT-South San Francisco: 5.3 TCR = 162% of Machine bases, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

UCT-South San Francisco safety composite

UCT-South San Francisco scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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%).

Rising injury rate

UCT-South San Francisco: 3.3 → 7.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.39× in 2020

UCT-South San Francisco's TCR rose 4.2 from 3.3 in 2019 to 7.4 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332999 · South San Francisco, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 162% of ind

  • DART 7.4 DART
  • RANK #26/47
  • PHOTO KME America Marine T…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KME America Marine Tube & Fitting LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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UCT-South San Francisco in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows UCT-South San Francisco averages 5.3 TCR (162% of the Machine bases, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

UCT-South San Francisco TCR series: 2019=3.3 · 2020=7.4 · BLS 3.3

Where UCT-South San Francisco falls in its industry

827 Machine bases, metal, manufact establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 47 Machine bases, metal, manufact employers in California.

UCT-South San Francisco (47 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate UCT-South San Francisco
UCT-South San Francisco (47 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5

UCT-South San Francisco has fewer employees than the Machine bases, metal, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2020 7.4 7.4 1 0 0
2019 3.3 1.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332999 · CA · South San Francisco

827 Machine bases, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 136 employers in South San Francisco, 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 KME America Marine Tube & Fitting LLC 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Decor Wausaukee 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Custom Metal Fabricating, Inc 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Global Partitions 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bowles Farming Company,Inc. 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ruiz Farm Labor 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fresh Valley Harvesting, LLC. 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Timothy & Viguie C.S.V. 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR Genentech SSF 13,259 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02120951 1,497 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aspiranet 1,182 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0206-02620951 1,178 FTE
NAT-TCR Dahlstrom Roll Form 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR MFA Feed Mill - Aurora 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint Luke's Northland Hospital Corp 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR TOSH 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Green Hill Manor 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE MTI Swanton 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Symphony Residences of Lincoln Park 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pickens Mill 47 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: 2020, 2019. 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.