Discount Department Stores · California

0685 - Palmdale

Palmdale, CA · ~194 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

0685 - Palmdale runs at 339% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

0685 - Palmdale: 11.5 TCR = 339% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

0685 - Palmdale safety composite

0685 - Palmdale scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.4

2019→2024

0685 - Palmdale injury rate improved

0685 - Palmdale's TCR fell 2.4 from 5.9 in 2019 to 3.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 27.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=5.9 · 2021=14.6 · 2022=27.5 · 2023=6.0 · 2024=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 11.5 · 339% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #784/850
  • PHOTO 2312 - Springfield W…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~194 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2312 - Springfield West (0.0 TCR gap)

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0685 - Palmdale in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 0685 - Palmdale averages 11.5 TCR (339% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

0685 - Palmdale TCR series: 2019=5.9 · 2021=14.6 · 2022=27.5 · 2023=6 · 2024=3.5 · BLS 3.4

Where 0685 - Palmdale falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 4% 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 #784 safest of 850 Discount Department Stores employers in California.

0685 - Palmdale (194 employees, TCR 11.5) 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 0685 - Palmdale
0685 - Palmdale (194 employees, TCR 11.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

0685 - Palmdale 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 3.5 3.5 4 0 0
2023 6.0 4.3 6 1 0
2022 27.5 27.5 1 32 0
2021 14.6 7.3 7 11 0
2019 5.9 5.9 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · CA · Palmdale

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 135 employers in Palmdale, 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 2312 - Springfield West 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1979 - San Antonio Westover 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 41 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6078 11.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE GARCIACO FARMING INC 194 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tulelake 194 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sorrento Berry Farms, LLC - Oxnard 194 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenfield Ag Services INC 194 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGAS-A502 5,323 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-06 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation Palmdale Campus (1513) 3,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 612 2,127 FTE
NAT-TCR 2312 - Springfield West 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR St Louis Shop MO FXFE-STLS 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Healthcare Residential Options, LLC 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Wisconsin Humane Society - Green Bay 11.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 0930 - St Cloud East 194 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1003 - Glen Burnie 194 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1038 - North Miami 194 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1065 - Rockwall 194 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.