Discount Department Stores · California

0228 - West Hills

West Hills, CA · ~178 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0228 - West Hills runs at 163% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

0228 - West Hills: 5.5 TCR = 163% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0228 - West Hills safety composite

0228 - West Hills scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 36%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

0228 - West Hills: 1.9 → 3.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 13.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2024

0228 - West Hills's TCR rose 1.8 from 1.9 in 2019 to 3.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 13.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · West Hills, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 163% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #400/850
  • PHOTO 0806 - Stevens Point
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~178 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0806 - Stevens Point (0.0 TCR gap)

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0228 - West Hills in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0228 - West Hills averages 5.5 TCR (163% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

0228 - West Hills TCR series: 2019=1.9 · 2021=5.2 · 2022=13.2 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=3.7 · BLS 3.4

Where 0228 - West Hills falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #400 safest of 850 Discount Department Stores employers in California.

0228 - West Hills (178 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 0228 - West Hills
0228 - West Hills (178 employees, TCR 5.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

0228 - West Hills has more employees than the Discount Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2024 3.7 2.8 3 1 0
2023 3.7 3.7 2 2 0
2022 13.2 13.2 3 12 0
2021 5.2 4.3 4 2 0
2019 1.9 0.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · CA · West Hills

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 31 employers in West Hills, 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 0806 - Stevens Point 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2294 - Waynesboro 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2324 - Camillus 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3415 - Ann Arbor State Street 5.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Greenheart Farms, Inc. 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grape Valley Contracting 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marmol Radziner, An Architecture Corporation 178 FTE
STATE-SIZE W.E. O'Neil Construction Co. of California 178 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Hills Hospital & Medical Center 1,199 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5152 272 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Valley 257 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5152 241 FTE
NAT-TCR 0806 - Stevens Point 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Long Prairie Packing 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 2294 - Waynesboro 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 2324 - Camillus 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0335 - Corpus Christi 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0617 - Boise 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pentair 178 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phelps Dodge Industries, Inc. 178 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, 2019. 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.