Chemical gases merchant wholesalers · California

WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. - National City

National City, CA · ~63 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. - National City runs at 332% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Chemical gases merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. - National City: 7.3 TCR = 332% of Chemical gases merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. - National City safety composite

WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. - National City scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. - National City: 2.0 → 12.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.72× in 2024

WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. - National City's TCR rose 10.5 from 2.0 in 2023 to 12.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · National City, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 332% of ind

  • DART 12.6 DART
  • RANK #67/71
  • PHOTO Cargill Salt Savage
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cargill Salt Savage (0.0 TCR gap)

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WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. - National City in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. - National City averages 7.3 TCR (332% of the Chemical gases merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. - National City TCR series: 2023=2 · 2024=12.6 · BLS 2.2

Where WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. - National City falls in its industry

766 Chemical gases merchant wholes establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #67 safest of 71 Chemical gases merchant wholes employers in California.

WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. - National City (63 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. - National City
WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. - National City (63 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

WestAir Gases and Equipment, Inc. - National City has more employees than the Chemical gases merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 12.6 12.6 7 0 0
2023 2.0 2.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · CA · National City

766 Chemical gases merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 100 employers in National City, 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 Cargill Salt Savage 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jacam Catalyst, LLC - Gardendale 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hillyard Co. - Montana 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Berje Inc 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE VF - Lodi 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valley Ventures, Inc. 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goossen Farms Inc 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE NGW, LLC 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paradise Valley Hospital 1,014 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0908 - CWI OPTICAL LAB - CA 789 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DSD3 701 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5023 489 FTE
NAT-TCR 62054 - Capstone Us Foods Port Orange Fl 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Tempe 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ellison Bakery LLC 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lowell Bakery 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sunrise Nursing Healthcare LLC 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE NNAC, Inc. 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avon Nursing Home, LLC 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Logistec USA / Cleveland Breakbulk 63 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.