Buckets, elevator or conveyor, manufacturing · California

Valley Welding & Machine Works

Fresno, CA · ~37 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
28.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valley Welding & Machine Works runs at 876% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Buckets, elevator or conveyor, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Valley Welding & Machine Works: 28.9 TCR = 876% of Buckets, elevator or conveyor, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valley Welding & Machine Works safety composite

Valley Welding & Machine Works scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 28.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 26.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

Valley Welding & Machine Works: 25.5 → 32.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 32.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.93× in 2018

Valley Welding & Machine Works's TCR rose 6.7 from 25.5 in 2017 to 32.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333922 · Fresno, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 28.9 · 876% of ind

  • DART 26.9 DART
  • RANK #12/12
  • PHOTO RiteWay Conveyors, I…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RiteWay Conveyors, Inc. (7.6 TCR gap)

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Valley Welding & Machine Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valley Welding & Machine Works averages 28.9 TCR (876% of the Buckets, elevator or conveyor, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Valley Welding & Machine Works TCR series: 2017=25.5 · 2018=32.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Valley Welding & Machine Works falls in its industry

361 Buckets, elevator or conveyor, establishments

Safer than 0% 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 #12 safest of 12 Buckets, elevator or conveyor, employers in California.

Valley Welding & Machine Works (37 employees, TCR 28.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 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 05001,0001,500 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Valley Welding & Machine Works
Valley Welding & Machine Works (37 employees, TCR 28.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Valley Welding & Machine Works has fewer employees than the Buckets, elevator or conveyor, manufactu 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
2018 32.3 26.9 12 0 0
2017 25.5 15.3 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333922 · CA · Fresno

361 Buckets, elevator or conveyor, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 981 employers in Fresno, 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 RiteWay Conveyors, Inc. 21.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marine City 18.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metal-Tech Industrial, LLC 16.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Metal-Tech Industrial Corp. - a div. of Nor-Tech Industrial Corp. 15.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE BULLSEYE FARMS LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE KP Spraying LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE KAN - 01 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kimberlina Shop 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Fresno 7,553 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ag Force LLC 6,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Regional Medical Ctr 5,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR Community Regional Medical Center 4,921 FTE
NAT-TCR Pennwest California** 28.9 TCR
NAT-TCR DAP-US Corp 28.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Tampa - GMS, Himes, US Scouts 28.9 TCR
NAT-TCR WIFT,LLC 28.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ocy - Bdp 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 26709 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Compassionate Care Hospice of Ohio 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE ORLD 37 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: 2018, 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.