Discount Department Stores · California

2465 - Balboa

San Diego, CA · ~348 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

2465 - Balboa runs at 139% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Discount Department Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

2465 - Balboa: 4.7 TCR = 139% of Discount Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

2465 - Balboa safety composite

2465 - Balboa scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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

−1.1

2019→2024

2465 - Balboa injury rate improved

2465 - Balboa's TCR fell 1.1 from 4.2 in 2019 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=4.2 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=8.1 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · San Diego, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 139% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #321/850
  • PHOTO 2540 - Sioux Falls E…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~348 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2540 - Sioux Falls East (0.0 TCR gap)

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2465 - Balboa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 2465 - Balboa averages 4.7 TCR (139% of the Discount Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

2465 - Balboa TCR series: 2019=4.2 · 2021=4.8 · 2022=3.4 · 2023=8.1 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.4

Where 2465 - Balboa falls in its industry

4,991 Discount Department Stores establishments

Safer than 47% 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 #321 safest of 850 Discount Department Stores employers in California.

2465 - Balboa (348 employees, TCR 4.7) 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 2465 - Balboa
2465 - Balboa (348 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

2465 - Balboa 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 3.1 2.1 6 0 0
2023 8.1 6.6 15 1 0
2022 3.4 3.4 6 1 0
2021 4.8 4.8 7 3 0
2019 4.2 3.7 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · CA · San Diego

4,991 Discount Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,979 employers in San Diego, 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 2540 - Sioux Falls East 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3399 - Port Chester 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5054 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0815 - Sawgrass 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Roebbelen Contracting Inc 348 FTE
STATE-SIZE MGE Underground, Inc. 348 FTE
STATE-SIZE Camblin Steel Service, Inc. 348 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fresno Plumbing & Heating Inc. 348 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Diego Health 9,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics 8,108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Human Services Agency 6,080 FTE
CITY-NEAR National University 4,955 FTE
NAT-TCR 2540 - Sioux Falls East 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Humboldt Cash Saver 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 2558-Jw Austin Dt 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 2521-Marriott Westminster 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1366 - Carmel West 348 FTE
NAT-SIZE Edif O & M 348 FTE
NAT-SIZE Panorama 348 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anomatic Corporation- Newark 348 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.