Food Services · California

000000930 Northrop Grumman Palmdale

Palmdale, CA · ~29 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.4
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

000000930 Northrop Grumman Palmdale runs at 481% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food Services workplace, earning a grade F.

000000930 Northrop Grumman Palmdale: 14.4 TCR = 481% of Food Services BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

000000930 Northrop Grumman Palmdale safety composite

000000930 Northrop Grumman Palmdale scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

000000930 Northrop Grumman Palmdale: 14.4 → 110.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 110.0 TCR · DART/TCR 7.62× in 2024

000000930 Northrop Grumman Palmdale's TCR rose 95.5 from 14.4 in 2023 to 110.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 7.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Palmdale, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.4 · 481% of ind

  • DART 110.0 DART
  • RANK #555/586
  • PHOTO 500437400 WHEATON CO…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 500437400 WHEATON COLLEGE RETAIL EMERSON HOOD DAV (0.0 TCR gap)

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000000930 Northrop Grumman Palmdale in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 000000930 Northrop Grumman Palmdale averages 14.4 TCR (481% of the Food Services BLS benchmark).

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

000000930 Northrop Grumman Palmdale TCR series: 2023=14.4 · 2024=110 · BLS 3.0

Where 000000930 Northrop Grumman Palmdale falls in its industry

6,952 Food Services establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #555 safest of 586 Food Services employers in California.

000000930 Northrop Grumman Palmdale (29 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 000000930 Northrop Grumman Palmdale
000000930 Northrop Grumman Palmdale (29 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

000000930 Northrop Grumman Palmdale has fewer employees than the Food Services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 110.0 110.0 1 0 0
2023 14.4 14.4 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · CA · Palmdale

6,952 Food Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 135 employers in Palmdale, 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 500437400 WHEATON COLLEGE RETAIL EMERSON HOOD DAV 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR DIS GENERAL CONCESSIONS 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1559 Paulsboro SD 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thomas Cuisine @ ENLOE MEDICAL CENTER 14.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sean V. Doherty Farms 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blanco Farms, LLC 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE CONSTRUCTION SUPPORT SHOP 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cottonwood Farms 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGAS-A502 5,323 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-06 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation Palmdale Campus (1513) 3,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 612 2,127 FTE
NAT-TCR T G Missouri Corporation - New Albany 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR R & G Nursing Care 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR TMT Oklahoma, Inc 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Good Samaritan Society 14.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 027 Spokane WA Barnhart Crane and Rigging LLC 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Red River Coatings LLC 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lincoln Park 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Weber Knapp Company- Allen Street Plant 29 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.