Truck trailer body shops · California

WAB Watsonville

Freedom, CA · ~27 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.2
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WAB Watsonville runs at 106% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Truck trailer body shops workplace, earning a grade C.

WAB Watsonville: 2.2 TCR = 106% of Truck trailer body shops BLS 2.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WAB Watsonville safety composite

WAB Watsonville scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 69% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

WAB Watsonville: 0.0 → 4.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

WAB Watsonville's TCR rose 4.5 from 0.0 in 2023 to 4.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811121 · Freedom, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.2 · 106% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/24
  • PHOTO Metro Accident Repai…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Metro Accident Repair Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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WAB Watsonville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WAB Watsonville averages 2.2 TCR (106% of the Truck trailer body shops BLS benchmark).

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

WAB Watsonville TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 2.1

Where WAB Watsonville falls in its industry

277 Truck trailer body shops establishments

Safer than 69% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 24 Truck trailer body shops employers in California.

WAB Watsonville (27 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate WAB Watsonville
WAB Watsonville (27 employees, TCR 2.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.6

WAB Watsonville has fewer employees than the Truck trailer body shops median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 4.5 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811121 · CA · Freedom

277 Truck trailer body shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 5 employers in Freedom, 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 Metro Accident Repair Center 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bentonville 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bear Precision Coatings 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dublin 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE HQ 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Medeiros Farms Vineyards 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE SAND RANCH 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE San Bernabe Vineyards 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-02840 123 FTE
CITY-NEAR SWY-0025-0025-02840 FAC-02840-FREEDOM-CA 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6962-SWY 0025 2840 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2912 31 FTE
NAT-TCR Heart of Texas Electric Cooperative 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Buckeye Boxes 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Custom Mold and Design 2.2 TCR
NAT-TCR ViWinTech Windows & Doors Inc. 2.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lisbon 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Red Oak Excavating, Inc. 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Faulkner Fabricators Inc 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Image Supply, Inc 27 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. 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.