Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing · California

Universal Plastic Mold, Inc.

Baldwin Park, CA · ~136 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Universal Plastic Mold, Inc. runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Universal Plastic Mold, Inc.: 4.6 TCR = 139% of Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Universal Plastic Mold, Inc. safety composite

Universal Plastic Mold, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

Universal Plastic Mold, Inc.: 2.8 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.38× in 2024

Universal Plastic Mold, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.6 from 2.8 in 2020 to 6.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Baldwin Park, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 139% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #60/117
  • PHOTO Captiva Containers
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~136 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Captiva Containers (0.0 TCR gap)

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Universal Plastic Mold, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Universal Plastic Mold, Inc. averages 4.6 TCR (139% of the Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Universal Plastic Mold, Inc. TCR series: 2020=2.8 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=6.4 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Universal Plastic Mold, Inc. falls in its industry

2,838 Awnings, rigid plastics or fib establishments

Safer than 35% 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 #60 safest of 117 Awnings, rigid plastics or fib employers in California.

Universal Plastic Mold, Inc. (136 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Universal Plastic Mold, Inc.
Universal Plastic Mold, Inc. (136 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Universal Plastic Mold, Inc. has more employees than the Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, m 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
2024 6.3 6.3 4 4 0
2023 2.9 0.7 4 0 0
2022 6.4 2.1 12 0 0
2021 4.5 3.8 6 0 0
2020 2.8 2.8 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · CA · Baldwin Park

2,838 Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 68 employers in Baldwin Park, 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 Captiva Containers 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schuetz Container Systems 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Formed Plastics inc. 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Strongwell 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE HM Clause - Modesto 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE Red Bluff Nursery 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE BC LABOR CONTRACTORS, INC. 136 FTE
STATE-SIZE Diede Construction 136 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baldwin Park Unified School District 2,575 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08881501 BALDWIN PARK HOSPITAL 1,624 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-08181501 1,555 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAN GABRIEL HUB (CASGA) 1,345 FTE
NAT-TCR 10484 Rocky River 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR TXM003 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Best Cutting Die Company 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pinetop 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 10475 River Road 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10481 Orland Park 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10419 Edina 136 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10460 West Des Moines 136 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.