Department stores · California

636 - Costa Mesa

Costa Mesa, CA · ~169 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

636 - Costa Mesa runs at 244% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Department stores workplace, earning a grade F.

636 - Costa Mesa: 8.3 TCR = 244% of Department stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

636 - Costa Mesa safety composite

636 - Costa Mesa scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

−3.8

2016→2019

636 - Costa Mesa injury rate improved

636 - Costa Mesa's TCR fell 3.8 from 9.3 in 2016 to 5.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.3 · 2018=10.2 · 2019=5.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452210 · Costa Mesa, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 244% of ind

  • DART 2.7 DART
  • RANK #351/379
  • PHOTO 1187 Palm Desert
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~169 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1187 Palm Desert (0.0 TCR gap)

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636 - Costa Mesa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 636 - Costa Mesa averages 8.3 TCR (244% of the Department stores BLS benchmark).

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

636 - Costa Mesa TCR series: 2016=9.3 · 2018=10.2 · 2019=5.4 · BLS 3.4

Where 636 - Costa Mesa falls in its industry

2,917 Department stores establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #351 safest of 379 Department stores employers in California.

636 - Costa Mesa (169 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 636 - Costa Mesa
636 - Costa Mesa (169 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1

636 - Costa Mesa has more employees than the Department stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2019 5.4 2.7 5 1 0
2018 10.2 0.8 12 0 0
2016 9.3 3.3 12 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452210 · CA · Costa Mesa

2,917 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 1187 Palm Desert 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2547 - West Melbourne 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1595 Garden City 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1415 Encinitas 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Adam Gutierrez 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE E & C LABOR SERVICES INC 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE MALAGA SHIPPING 169 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cal-South Harvesting, Inc. 169 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 Brenham TX - Coating 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Dynaric Strapping Division 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ted Collins Associates, Ltd. 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ardmore Ave. Plant 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 645 - Las Vegas 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE ShopRite of West Hartford 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dallas, TX 169 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lear Guilford - Pine Grove 169 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: 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.