Boxes, wood, manufacturing · California

Valley Box Co Inc

Santee, CA · ~48 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valley Box Co Inc runs at 343% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Boxes, wood, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Valley Box Co Inc: 11.3 TCR = 343% of Boxes, wood, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valley Box Co Inc safety composite

Valley Box Co Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Valley Box Co Inc: 4.3 → 15.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 15.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.05× in 2023

Valley Box Co Inc's TCR rose 11.6 from 4.3 in 2017 to 15.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Santee, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.3 · 343% of ind

  • DART 11.9 DART
  • RANK #51/67
  • PHOTO Badger Custom Pallet…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Badger Custom Pallet Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valley Box Co Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valley Box Co Inc averages 11.3 TCR (343% of the Boxes, wood, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Valley Box Co Inc TCR series: 2017=4.3 · 2022=13.8 · 2023=15.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Valley Box Co Inc falls in its industry

952 Boxes, wood, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #51 safest of 67 Boxes, wood, manufacturing employers in California.

Valley Box Co Inc (48 employees, TCR 11.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Valley Box Co Inc
Valley Box Co Inc (48 employees, TCR 11.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Valley Box Co Inc has fewer employees than the Boxes, wood, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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 15.8 11.9 8 0 0
2022 13.8 13.8 5 0 0
2017 4.3 4.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · CA · Santee

952 Boxes, wood, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 74 employers in Santee, 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 Badger Custom Pallet Inc 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paleteras Unidas Inc 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR WIC Wichita Branch 11.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kamps Pallets Aurora 11.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE ARVIN PRODUCTION & ADMIN 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rava Business Park 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guerrero Transportation & Contracting Inc 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE VPS, Inc 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 595 1,203 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA223 384 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0403 - SANTEE CA WHSE 365 FTE
CITY-NEAR SRS Santee - 8701 Cuyamaca Street 280 FTE
NAT-TCR Memphis Fence Company 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100608 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Badger Custom Pallet Inc 11.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bridgeport Academy 11.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jaguar Land Rover Hinsdale 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE 504 - Alexandria Branch 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chicago 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moon Motorsports 48 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, 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.