Retail Grocery · California

69030002-15 Cardenas Markets 215

East Palo Alto, CA · ~84 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

69030002-15 Cardenas Markets 215 runs at 252% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Grocery workplace, earning a grade F.

69030002-15 Cardenas Markets 215: 8.6 TCR = 252% of Retail Grocery BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

69030002-15 Cardenas Markets 215 safety composite

69030002-15 Cardenas Markets 215 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

−4.3

2023→2024

69030002-15 Cardenas Markets 215 injury rate improved

69030002-15 Cardenas Markets 215's TCR fell 4.3 from 10.7 in 2023 to 6.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=10.7 · 2024=6.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · East Palo Alto, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 252% of ind

  • DART 6.4 DART
  • RANK #2998/4686
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 005
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 005 (0.0 TCR gap)

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69030002-15 Cardenas Markets 215 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 69030002-15 Cardenas Markets 215 averages 8.6 TCR (252% of the Retail Grocery BLS benchmark).

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

69030002-15 Cardenas Markets 215 TCR series: 2023=10.7 · 2024=6.4 · BLS 3.4

Where 69030002-15 Cardenas Markets 215 falls in its industry

30,654 Retail Grocery establishments

Safer than 17% 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 #2998 safest of 4686 Retail Grocery employers in California.

69030002-15 Cardenas Markets 215 (84 employees, TCR 8.6) 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 69030002-15 Cardenas Markets 215
69030002-15 Cardenas Markets 215 (84 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

69030002-15 Cardenas Markets 215 has fewer 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 6.4 6.4 5 0 0
2023 10.7 9.4 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · East Palo Alto

30,654 Retail Grocery employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 12 employers in East Palo Alto, 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 The Fresh Market 005 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3070 Swn114 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 08377 - Store # 8377 Gloversville 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Price Cutter # 35 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE montalvo farms 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hansen Custom Farming, LLC 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hilarides Dairy 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE McIntyre Labor Service, LLC. 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR IKEA #347 East Palo Alto 282 FTE
CITY-NEAR Four Seasons Hotel Silicon Valley East Palo Alto 198 FTE
CITY-NEAR 055802-PALO ALTO PO 162 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6603 EAST PALO ALTO 117 FTE
NAT-TCR Portland Me - 025 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Pavilion 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sterling Landscape Company, LLC 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Canton TRO 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE MJM Industries Inc 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 439 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lark Maintenance Facility 84 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.