Distributor of Safety Supplies · California

Whittier-Airgas Safety

Whittier, CA · ~137 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Whittier-Airgas Safety runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Distributor of Safety Supplies workplace, earning a grade B.

Whittier-Airgas Safety: 1.6 TCR = 71% of Distributor of Safety Supplies BLS 2.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Whittier-Airgas Safety safety composite

Whittier-Airgas Safety scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

Whittier-Airgas Safety: 1.6 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 3.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.49× in 2022

Whittier-Airgas Safety's TCR rose 1.9 from 1.6 in 2016 to 3.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423710 · Whittier, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 1.6 · 71% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #7/41
  • PHOTO Richelieu America Lt…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~137 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Richelieu America Ltd ORL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Whittier-Airgas Safety in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Whittier-Airgas Safety averages 1.6 TCR (71% of the Distributor of Safety Supplies BLS benchmark).

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

Whittier-Airgas Safety TCR series: 2016=1.6 · 2017=0.6 · 2018=1.5 · 2019=0.8 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=0.9 · 2022=3.5 · BLS 2.2

Where Whittier-Airgas Safety falls in its industry

449 Distributor of Safety Supplies establishments

Safer than 73% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 41 Distributor of Safety Supplies employers in California.

Whittier-Airgas Safety (137 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Whittier-Airgas Safety
Whittier-Airgas Safety (137 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Whittier-Airgas Safety has more employees than the Distributor of Safety Supplies median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2022 3.5 2.3 3 0 0
2021 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2020 1.9 1.0 2 0 0
2019 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2018 1.5 1.5 2 0 0
2017 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2016 1.6 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423710 · CA · Whittier

449 Distributor of Safety Supplies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 124 employers in Whittier, 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 Richelieu America Ltd ORL 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR LaForce - Cincinnati 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cincinnati Branch 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR RC - IRVING TX 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE DIVERSIFIED FARM LABOR INC 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE A C FARM LABOR CONTRACTOR INC 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE IN Farms Inc 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE BVLS 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR PIH Health Hospital - Whittier 3,609 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 499 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR PIH Health Hospital - Downey 1,130 FTE
CITY-NEAR PIH Health Physicians 819 FTE
NAT-TCR USA WI Menomonee Falls Plant 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Aiken - PSR (BAMG) 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Park Manor Health and Rehab 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Portland Service Center 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Reedsville Plant 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Immediate Health Associates, Inc 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE CertainTeed,LLC 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arcadia Beverage LLC 137 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.