Retail Grocery · California

69030001-23 Cardenas Markets 23

El Centro, CA · ~104 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

69030001-23 Cardenas Markets 23 runs at 316% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Grocery workplace, earning a grade F.

69030001-23 Cardenas Markets 23: 10.7 TCR = 316% of Retail Grocery BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

69030001-23 Cardenas Markets 23 safety composite

69030001-23 Cardenas Markets 23 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.15 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

69030001-23 Cardenas Markets 23: 9.1 → 12.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2024

69030001-23 Cardenas Markets 23's TCR rose 3.3 from 9.1 in 2023 to 12.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · El Centro, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.7 · 316% of ind

  • DART 11.2 DART
  • RANK #3604/4686
  • PHOTO SWY-0029-0029-02232 …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SWY-0029-0029-02232 FAC-02232-TORRANCE-CA (0.0 TCR gap)

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69030001-23 Cardenas Markets 23 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 69030001-23 Cardenas Markets 23 averages 10.7 TCR (316% of the Retail Grocery BLS benchmark).

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

69030001-23 Cardenas Markets 23 TCR series: 2023=9.1 · 2024=12.4 · BLS 3.4

Where 69030001-23 Cardenas Markets 23 falls in its industry

30,654 Retail Grocery establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #3604 safest of 4686 Retail Grocery employers in California.

69030001-23 Cardenas Markets 23 (104 employees, TCR 10.7) 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 69030001-23 Cardenas Markets 23
69030001-23 Cardenas Markets 23 (104 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

69030001-23 Cardenas Markets 23 has more employees than the Retail Grocery 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 12.4 11.2 8 2 0
2023 9.1 9.1 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · El Centro

30,654 Retail Grocery employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 91 employers in El Centro, 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-0029-0029-02232 FAC-02232-TORRANCE-CA 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2923 Fre180 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR STOP & SHOP 2505 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6400-SWY-0027-0027-03501 10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE farm management inc 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kendall Farms LP 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maple Dairy L.P 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Veg-Land, Inc. 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Imperial 2,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR JJ HARVESTING 1,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 350 1,170 FTE
CITY-NEAR U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Centro 971 FTE
NAT-TCR 2923 Fre180 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Village of Bolingbrook 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Transport National LLC 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Cersosimo Lumber Company 10.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Magnolia Glen 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 096 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Transport - 861 861SH 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Native Hardwoods 104 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.

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