Discount Department Stores · California

0290 - Gardena

Gardena, CA · ~226 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0290 - Gardena runs at 357% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

0290 - Gardena: 12.1 TCR = 357% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0290 - Gardena safety composite

0290 - Gardena scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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 12.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

0290 - Gardena: 7.2 → 11.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 22.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2024

0290 - Gardena's TCR rose 4.1 from 7.2 in 2019 to 11.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 22.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Gardena, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.1 · 357% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #803/850
  • PHOTO PWI - Albany MCLB
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 44 inj
  • SIZE ~226 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PWI - Albany MCLB (0.0 TCR gap)

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0290 - Gardena in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0290 - Gardena averages 12.1 TCR (357% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

0290 - Gardena TCR series: 2019=7.2 · 2021=12.6 · 2022=22.3 · 2023=7.2 · 2024=11.4 · BLS 3.4

Where 0290 - Gardena falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #803 safest of 850 Discount Department Stores employers in California.

0290 - Gardena (226 employees, TCR 12.1) 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 0290 - Gardena
0290 - Gardena (226 employees, TCR 12.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

0290 - Gardena 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 11.4 8.3 11 4 0
2023 7.2 6.5 9 1 0
2022 22.3 21.6 5 29 0
2021 12.6 10.7 8 12 0
2019 7.2 6.6 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · CA · Gardena

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 223 employers in Gardena, 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 PWI - Albany MCLB 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2753 - Staten Island CNTL 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2873 - Raleigh Six Forks Rd 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5167 12.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bayview Vineyards, INC 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Family Tree Farms Inc. 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grower Direct Nut Company 226 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vinculums Services LLC 226 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 602 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-030 909 FTE
CITY-NEAR GARDENA HUB (CAGAR) 809 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAGAR - GARDENA HUB 794 FTE
NAT-TCR Solar Energy Services, Inc. Maryland Headquarters 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR St Joseph Residence Home 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Call Construction LLC 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Blaine Public Works 12.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0345 - Washington Square 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0751 - Vadnais Heights 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1094 - Lexington SE 226 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1349 - Spartanburg 226 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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