Barrels, light gauge metal, manufacturing · California

Wastequip Taft

Taft, CA · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wastequip Taft runs at 435% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Barrels, light gauge metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Wastequip Taft: 14.4 TCR = 435% of Barrels, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wastequip Taft safety composite

Wastequip Taft scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

−13.3

2017→2019

Wastequip Taft injury rate improved

Wastequip Taft's TCR fell 13.3 from 23.1 in 2017 to 9.8 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 23.1 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=23.1 · 2018=10.2 · 2019=9.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332439 · Taft, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.4 · 435% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #8/8
  • PHOTO RIVER CITY METAL PRO…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RIVER CITY METAL PRODUCTS, INC. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Wastequip Taft in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wastequip Taft averages 14.4 TCR (435% of the Barrels, light gauge metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Wastequip Taft TCR series: 2017=23.1 · 2018=10.2 · 2019=9.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Wastequip Taft falls in its industry

175 Barrels, light gauge metal, ma establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 8 Barrels, light gauge metal, ma employers in California.

Wastequip Taft (40 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Wastequip Taft
Wastequip Taft (40 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Wastequip Taft has fewer employees than the Barrels, light gauge metal, manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2019 9.8 4.9 2 2 0
2018 10.2 6.2 5 0 0
2017 23.1 10.3 8 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332439 · CA · Taft

175 Barrels, light gauge metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 17 employers in Taft, 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 RIVER CITY METAL PRODUCTS, INC. 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Bin & Conveyor LLC 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CMC Letco (Plant 4) 14.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wastequip Rosemount 13.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stackhouse Brothers 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE PISTACHIO HARVESTING, INC. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Watsonville/San Juan Bautista 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gomez Growers 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 391 1,479 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6808-0415 281 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6962-ABS-0029-0028-01382 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR ABS-0029-0028-01382 FAC-01382-TAFT-CA 79 FTE
NAT-TCR Ofa 32 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Xanitos EVS at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Carnes Frames Inc. - Cox Street Location 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR GEG - Ground Ops 14.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE HNCCT01 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE HTXWH01 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beloit Regional Hospice 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Summit Metal Fabricators 40 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: 2019, 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.