Discount Department Stores · California

1293 - Costa Mesa

Costa Mesa, CA · ~279 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

1293 - Costa Mesa runs at 267% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

1293 - Costa Mesa: 9.1 TCR = 267% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

1293 - Costa Mesa safety composite

1293 - Costa Mesa scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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 9.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

−3.5

2019→2024

1293 - Costa Mesa injury rate improved

1293 - Costa Mesa's TCR fell 3.5 from 5.9 in 2019 to 2.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 25.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=5.9 · 2021=7.8 · 2022=25.1 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=2.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Costa Mesa, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 267% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #678/850
  • PHOTO 0615 - Redding
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 39 inj
  • SIZE ~279 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0615 - Redding (0.0 TCR gap)

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1293 - Costa Mesa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 1293 - Costa Mesa averages 9.1 TCR (267% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

1293 - Costa Mesa TCR series: 2019=5.9 · 2021=7.8 · 2022=25.1 · 2023=4.2 · 2024=2.4 · BLS 3.4

Where 1293 - Costa Mesa falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #678 safest of 850 Discount Department Stores employers in California.

1293 - Costa Mesa (279 employees, TCR 9.1) 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 1293 - Costa Mesa
1293 - Costa Mesa (279 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

1293 - Costa Mesa 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 2.4 2.4 4 0 0
2023 4.2 3.0 7 0 0
2022 25.1 24.5 9 38 0
2021 7.8 5.8 9 6 0
2019 5.9 5.9 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · CA · Costa Mesa

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 185 employers in Costa Mesa, 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 0615 - Redding 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1104 - Garner 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0620 - LaCrosse 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 1515 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hanwha Qcells America Irvine Office 279 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pavement Recycling Systems, Inc. 279 FTE
STATE-SIZE BT San Francisco (Fremont) 279 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bay City Mechanical Inc. 279 FTE
CITY-NEAR PACIFIC AMPHITHEATER 863 FTE
CITY-NEAR OC Fair & Event Center 861 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Costa Mesa 670 FTE
CITY-NEAR PACWEST Security Services 567 FTE
NAT-TCR 1104 - Garner 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR NEE 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR the Melanson Company, A Tecta America Company LLC DBA A.C. Hathorne Company 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bridgeview Estates Century 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1042 - Ellicott City 279 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clow Valve Company - Machine Shop 279 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spartanburg Sc 279 FTE
NAT-SIZE Washington State Dept of Natural Resources - Northeast Region 279 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.