Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers except Convenience Retailers · California

20500002-398 Store 398 - El Cajon

El Cajon, CA · ~61 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

20500002-398 Store 398 - El Cajon runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers except Convenience Retailers workplace, earning a grade D.

20500002-398 Store 398 - El Cajon: 5.4 TCR = 159% of Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers except Convenience Retailers BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

20500002-398 Store 398 - El Cajon safety composite

20500002-398 Store 398 - El Cajon scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 8%), 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)
D 5.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

20500002-398 Store 398 - El Cajon: 0.0 → 10.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2024

20500002-398 Store 398 - El Cajon's TCR rose 10.8 from 0.0 in 2023 to 10.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · El Cajon, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 159% of ind

  • DART 10.8 DART
  • RANK #1614/4686
  • PHOTO SWY-0025-0025-01195 …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SWY-0025-0025-01195 FAC-01195-CLAYTON-CA (0.0 TCR gap)

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20500002-398 Store 398 - El Cajon in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 20500002-398 Store 398 - El Cajon averages 5.4 TCR (159% of the Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers except Convenience Retailers BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

20500002-398 Store 398 - El Cajon TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=10.8 · BLS 3.4

Where 20500002-398 Store 398 - El Cajon falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1614 safest of 4686 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in California.

20500002-398 Store 398 - El Cajon (61 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 20500002-398 Store 398 - El Cajon
20500002-398 Store 398 - El Cajon (61 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

20500002-398 Store 398 - El Cajon has fewer employees than the Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 10.8 10.8 3 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · El Cajon

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery Retailers except Convenience Retailers 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 SWY-0025-0025-01195 FAC-01195-CLAYTON-CA 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY 0029 2232 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 99 Ranch Market 1231 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 393 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bay Area Trusted Logistics 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE HERITAGE ON THE MARINA 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Project Angel Food 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-Stockton-IDS 61 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 Mitay - Taylor 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Houston Methodist Specialty Physician Group 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Andy Mast Greenhouses 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR LindenGrove Communities LLC - Waukesha 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jack Richeson & Co. 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Integrated Technical Systems, Inc. 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE 224 Wood River 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zeigler Racine Hyundai 61 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.