Discount Department Stores · California

0304 - El Cajon

El Cajon, CA · ~156 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0304 - El Cajon runs at 370% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

0304 - El Cajon: 12.6 TCR = 370% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0304 - El Cajon safety composite

0304 - El Cajon scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

0304 - El Cajon: 3.3 → 9.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 35.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.73× in 2024

0304 - El Cajon's TCR rose 5.9 from 3.3 in 2019 to 9.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 35.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · El Cajon, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.6 · 370% of ind

  • DART 9.2 DART
  • RANK #812/850
  • PHOTO Ross store 326
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~156 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ross store 326 (0.0 TCR gap)

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0304 - El Cajon in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0304 - El Cajon averages 12.6 TCR (370% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

0304 - El Cajon TCR series: 2019=3.3 · 2021=11.1 · 2022=35.1 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=9.2 · BLS 3.4

Where 0304 - El Cajon falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 2% 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 #812 safest of 850 Discount Department Stores employers in California.

0304 - El Cajon (156 employees, TCR 12.6) 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 0304 - El Cajon
0304 - El Cajon (156 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

0304 - El Cajon 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 9.2 9.2 7 2 0
2023 4.2 4.2 4 0 0
2022 35.1 34.1 3 32 0
2021 11.1 8.3 5 7 0
2019 3.3 2.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · CA · El Cajon

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 236 employers in El Cajon, 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 Ross store 326 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 382 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1410 - San Diego Mission Valley 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0793 - Cuyahoga Falls 12.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bud of California Celery 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fresh Foods, Inc. 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Villa Park Strathmore 156 FTE
STATE-SIZE Packing Plant 156 FTE
CITY-NEAR SOUTHERN REGION : SDU 1,176 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 370 1,148 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Aerospace Chem-tronics 1,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Aerospace Chem Tronics 938 FTE
NAT-TCR Enterprise Recycling LTD 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR NCC015 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Taylorville 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Jimmy'S Tree Service Inc 12.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0013 - North Dallas 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0811 - Panama City 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0847 - Virginia 156 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0898 - Casselberry 156 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.