Rust preventive preparations manufacturing · California

WD-40 Company

San Diego, CA · ~227 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WD-40 Company runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Rust preventive preparations manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

WD-40 Company: 0.5 TCR = 15% of Rust preventive preparations manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WD-40 Company safety composite

WD-40 Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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

−1.1

2018→2024

WD-40 Company injury rate improved

WD-40 Company's TCR fell 1.1 from 1.1 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 1.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.1 · 2019=0.5 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.5 · 2022=0.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325998 · San Diego, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 15% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/18
  • PHOTO The Chemours Company…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~227 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Chemours Company FC, LLC - Washington Works (0.0 TCR gap)

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WD-40 Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WD-40 Company averages 0.5 TCR (15% of the Rust preventive preparations manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

WD-40 Company TCR series: 2018=1.1 · 2019=0.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=0.5 · 2022=0.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where WD-40 Company falls in its industry

485 Rust preventive preparations m establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 18 Rust preventive preparations m employers in California.

WD-40 Company (227 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate WD-40 Company
WD-40 Company (227 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 2.5

WD-40 Company has more employees than the Rust preventive preparations manufacturi median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.9 0.0 2 0 0
2021 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2018 1.1 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325998 · CA · San Diego

485 Rust preventive preparations manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,979 employers in San Diego, 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 The Chemours Company FC, LLC - Washington Works 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR BASF - Beachwood EBN 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Solvay Vernon Texas 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR KIK Custom Products / Voyant Beauty 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Channel Islands Vegetable Farms, Inc. 227 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farming2 227 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Pacifico FLC, Inc 227 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hunter 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Diego Health 9,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics 8,108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Human Services Agency 6,080 FTE
CITY-NEAR National University 4,955 FTE
NAT-TCR Weldon Pump LLC 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Yamada America, Inc 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Centurion Construction Group LLC 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Concare Inc 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE RW Dake Construction 227 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barts Electric Company Inc. 227 FTE
NAT-SIZE Niagara Bottling, LLC - Allentown 227 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tellepsen Builders, L.P. 227 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, 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.