All Other General Merchandise Stores · California

3524

El Cajon, CA · ~251 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

3524 runs at 180% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical All Other General Merchandise Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

3524: 6.1 TCR = 180% of All Other General Merchandise Stores BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

3524 safety composite

3524 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

3524: 4.3 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 8.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.26× in 2022

3524's TCR rose 3.4 from 4.3 in 2016 to 7.7 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.3 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · El Cajon, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 180% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #153/255
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #5125
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 73 inj
  • SIZE ~251 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #5125 (0.0 TCR gap)

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3524 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 3524 averages 6.1 TCR (180% of the All Other General Merchandise Stores BLS benchmark).

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

3524 TCR series: 2016=4.3 · 2017=4 · 2018=7.6 · 2019=4.4 · 2020=8.3 · 2021=6.6 · 2022=7.7 · BLS 3.4

Where 3524 falls in its industry

2,120 All Other General Merchandise establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #153 safest of 255 All Other General Merchandise employers in California.

3524 (251 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 3524
3524 (251 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

3524 has more employees than the All Other General Merchandise Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2022 7.7 7.7 11 3 0
2021 6.6 4.4 12 0 0
2020 8.3 3.9 12 3 0
2019 4.4 2.9 8 1 0
2018 7.6 5.3 15 2 0
2017 4.0 0.4 7 2 0
2016 4.3 1.3 8 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · CA · El Cajon

2,120 All Other General Merchandise 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 Big Lots Store #5125 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5354 Blue Ash, OH 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #1377 Middletown, NY 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5040 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Harris Woolf Almonds Coalinga 251 FTE
STATE-SIZE ICHIGO BERRY FARMS 251 FTE
STATE-SIZE PICK, PACK & HAUL, INC 251 FTE
STATE-SIZE FRESNO RMC 251 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 Brookdale Jones Farm 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Ohio Northern Univ-Mcintosh 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR NFI Interactive Logistics, LLC-7001 SOUTH FWY 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 0008 - Kirkland Wa Whse 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1343 - Meridian Id Whse 251 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0745 - Kalispell Mt Whse 251 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0339 - Greensboro Nc Whse 251 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vi at the Glen 251 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.