Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade · California

Valley Plating Works, Inc. Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA · ~19 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valley Plating Works, Inc. Los Angeles runs at 218% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade workplace, earning a grade F.

Valley Plating Works, Inc. Los Angeles: 7.2 TCR = 218% of Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valley Plating Works, Inc. Los Angeles safety composite

Valley Plating Works, Inc. Los Angeles scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.4

2018→2024

Valley Plating Works, Inc. Los Angeles injury rate improved

Valley Plating Works, Inc. Los Angeles's TCR fell 4.4 from 4.4 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 18.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.4 · 2019=18.0 · 2020=17.1 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.1 · 2023=10.8 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332813 · Los Angeles, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 218% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #61/74
  • PHOTO Duracoatings Holding…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Duracoatings Holdings, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valley Plating Works, Inc. Los Angeles in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valley Plating Works, Inc. Los Angeles averages 7.2 TCR (218% of the Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Valley Plating Works, Inc. Los Angeles TCR series: 2018=4.4 · 2019=18 · 2020=17.1 · 2021=0 · 2022=0.1 · 2023=10.8 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Valley Plating Works, Inc. Los Angeles falls in its industry

585 Electroplating metals and form establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #61 safest of 74 Electroplating metals and form employers in California.

Valley Plating Works, Inc. Los Angeles (19 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Valley Plating Works, Inc. Los Angeles
Valley Plating Works, Inc. Los Angeles (19 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Valley Plating Works, Inc. Los Angeles has fewer employees than the Electroplating metals and formed product median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 10.8 10.8 2 0 0
2022 0.1 0.1 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 17.1 17.1 3 0 0
2019 18.0 18.0 4 0 0
2018 4.4 4.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332813 · CA · Los Angeles

585 Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 2,064 employers in Los Angeles, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Duracoatings Holdings, LLC 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fulton County Processing 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Westfield Electroplating Company 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roser Technologies Inc. 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE A. OSEGUERA CO., INC. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE TEIXEIRA FARMS INC 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Golden R, Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE PEDRAZZI FARMS 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Live Nation Worldwide, Inc. 50,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Los Angeles 40,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR LADWP 11,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles Department of Water and Power 10,346 FTE
NAT-TCR Armstrong Comfort Solutions - Butler 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Weed Man LLC 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Red Oak Rehab and Care Center & WEL-Home Health Red Oak 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR River Valley Hatchery 7.2 TCR

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, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.