Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing · California

Younger Mfg Co

Torrance, CA · ~310 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Younger Mfg Co runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Younger Mfg Co: 4.0 TCR = 122% of Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Younger Mfg Co safety composite

Younger Mfg Co scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 13%), 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 4.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

Younger Mfg Co: 2.3 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.26× in 2024

Younger Mfg Co's TCR rose 5.0 from 2.3 in 2021 to 7.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339115 · Torrance, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.0 · 122% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #15/22
  • PHOTO Versant Health Newto…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~310 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Versant Health Newtown Square (0.1 TCR gap)

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Younger Mfg Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Younger Mfg Co averages 4.0 TCR (122% of the Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Younger Mfg Co TCR series: 2021=2.3 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=7.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Younger Mfg Co falls in its industry

135 Lenses, ophthalmic, manufactur establishments

Safer than 13% 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 #15 safest of 22 Lenses, ophthalmic, manufactur employers in California.

Younger Mfg Co (310 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 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 05001,0001,5002,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Younger Mfg Co
Younger Mfg Co (310 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Younger Mfg Co has more employees than the Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing 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 7.3 1.1 21 0 0
2023 4.2 0.7 13 0 0
2022 2.3 0.3 7 0 0
2021 2.3 0.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339115 · CA · Torrance

135 Lenses, ophthalmic, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 332 employers in Torrance, 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 Versant Health Newtown Square 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quantum Innovations 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vision Ease - Ramsey 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pech Optical 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rich Products Lodi 310 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coherus BioSciences Redwood Shores 310 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wilwood Engineering 310 FTE
STATE-SIZE Futuris Automotive CA LLC 310 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harbor-UCLA Medical Center 4,144 FTE
CITY-NEAR Torrance Memorial Medical Center 3,808 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles 3,229 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 494 2,621 FTE
NAT-TCR Smith-Midland Corporation (South Carolina) 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Brownsville 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ervin Bishop Construction, Inc 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Block-Lite Company, Inc 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE MetroPower Inc BR 1 5 15 18 25 310 FTE
NAT-SIZE 230 - Noblesville 310 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kerry - Jackson 310 FTE
NAT-SIZE Altoona 310 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, 2022, 2021. 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.