Drywall contractors · California

Western Drywall

Salida, CA · ~191 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Western Drywall runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Drywall contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Western Drywall: 5.0 TCR = 178% of Drywall contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Western Drywall safety composite

Western Drywall scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

−2.7

2017→2019

Western Drywall injury rate improved

Western Drywall's TCR fell 2.7 from 6.3 in 2017 to 3.6 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.3 · 2018=5.0 · 2019=3.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238310 · Salida, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 178% of ind

  • DART 3.6 DART
  • RANK #141/228
  • PHOTO horizon drywall inc
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~191 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: horizon drywall inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Western Drywall in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Western Drywall averages 5.0 TCR (178% of the Drywall contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Western Drywall TCR series: 2017=6.3 · 2018=5 · 2019=3.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Western Drywall falls in its industry

1,613 Drywall contractors establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #141 safest of 228 Drywall contractors employers in California.

Western Drywall (191 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Western Drywall
Western Drywall (191 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Western Drywall has more employees than the Drywall contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 3.6 3.6 2 0 0
2018 5.0 5.0 2 1 0
2017 6.3 4.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238310 · CA · Salida

1,613 Drywall contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 16 employers in Salida, 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 horizon drywall inc 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ives Construction Interiors Co., Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kinzler Construction Services - Ankeny 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 168 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wileman Bros. & Elliott, Inc. 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE Creekside Farms, Inc. 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE WesPak, Inc. 191 FTE
STATE-SIZE Century Park Annex - Bld: 6792 - 01 191 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salida 618 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flory Industries 283 FTE
CITY-NEAR Environment Control Central Valley 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Framing Corp 48 FTE
NAT-TCR Mesker Huntsville 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wall Street (AZ) 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Misericordia Home 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR OP Hospice Ohio 65-1253299 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of McMinnville 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE Village of Elmwood Park 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE Durwood Greene Construction Co. 191 FTE
NAT-SIZE Card-Monroe Corp. 191 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.