Discount Department Stores · California

0296 - Poway

Poway, CA · ~231 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0296 - Poway runs at 205% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

0296 - Poway: 7.0 TCR = 205% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0296 - Poway safety composite

0296 - Poway scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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

0296 - Poway: 3.0 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 18.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2024

0296 - Poway's TCR rose 2.0 from 3.0 in 2019 to 5.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 18.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 205% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #525/850
  • PHOTO 2238 - San Jose East
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~231 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2238 - San Jose East (0.0 TCR gap)

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0296 - Poway in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0296 - Poway averages 7.0 TCR (205% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

0296 - Poway TCR series: 2019=3 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=18.4 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=5 · BLS 3.4

Where 0296 - Poway falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 25% 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 #525 safest of 850 Discount Department Stores employers in California.

0296 - Poway (231 employees, TCR 7.0) 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 0296 - Poway
0296 - Poway (231 employees, TCR 7.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

0296 - Poway 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 5.0 4.2 6 0 0
2023 3.3 3.3 3 1 0
2022 18.4 16.0 8 15 0
2021 5.3 5.3 4 3 0
2019 3.0 3.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · CA · Poway

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 143 employers in Poway, 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 2238 - San Jose East 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 230 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR DDs DISCOUNTS Store 5005 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1518 - Orlando Millenia 7.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE R&L CONTRACTING, INC 231 FTE
STATE-SIZE Layne Minerals LLC 231 FTE
STATE-SIZE Array Construction 231 FTE
STATE-SIZE La Terra Fina 231 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Poway Campus 4,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR Geneal Atomics Facilities and Support Groups 1,169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palomar Medical Center Poway 889 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics - Poway - A15 661 FTE
NAT-TCR 102 Arizona Foods WHS 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Evansville IN FXFE-EVV 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gene'S Heartland Foods 710 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Liberty Mayaguez 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0003 - Crystal 231 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0794 - Canton 231 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0927 - Evanston 231 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1477 - Clifton Park 231 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.