Housewares stores · California

029 Wac

Walnut Creek, CA · ~40 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

029 Wac runs at 349% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Housewares stores workplace, earning a grade F.

029 Wac: 11.8 TCR = 349% of Housewares stores BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

029 Wac safety composite

029 Wac scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

029 Wac: 7.5 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 39.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.7× in 2022

029 Wac's TCR rose 0.9 from 7.5 in 2017 to 8.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 39.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 442299 · Walnut Creek, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.8 · 349% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #244/297
  • PHOTO HG1030
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HG1030 (0.0 TCR gap)

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029 Wac in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 029 Wac averages 11.8 TCR (349% of the Housewares stores BLS benchmark).

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

029 Wac TCR series: 2017=7.5 · 2018=3.6 · 2019=12.2 · 2020=39.5 · 2021=0 · 2022=8.3 · BLS 3.4

Where 029 Wac falls in its industry

2,162 Housewares stores establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #244 safest of 297 Housewares stores employers in California.

029 Wac (40 employees, TCR 11.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 029 Wac
029 Wac (40 employees, TCR 11.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 6.2

029 Wac has more employees than the Housewares stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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 8.3 8.3 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 39.5 28.2 7 0 0
2019 12.2 12.2 3 0 0
2018 3.6 3.6 1 0 0
2017 7.5 7.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

442299 · CA · Walnut Creek

2,162 Housewares stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 119 employers in Walnut Creek, 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 HG1030 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR HG389 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Christmas Tree Shops Somerville 7028 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR HG101 11.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stackhouse Brothers 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE PISTACHIO HARVESTING, INC. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Watsonville/San Juan Bautista 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gomez Growers 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 522 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 523 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02121551 2,806 FTE
CITY-NEAR 02821551 WALNUT CREEK HOSPITAL 1,924 FTE
NAT-TCR 6458-ZLRO 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR KS Plant 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR CMH - Ground Ops 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Berthoud Living Center 11.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rosewood 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE 8769-Srp Cgs 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZEND 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bed Bath and Beyond Farmingdale 40 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. 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.