Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores · California

6962-ABS-0029-0028-00170

Fountain Valley, CA · ~72 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

6962-ABS-0029-0028-00170 runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

6962-ABS-0029-0028-00170: 5.4 TCR = 160% of Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

6962-ABS-0029-0028-00170 safety composite

6962-ABS-0029-0028-00170 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

6962-ABS-0029-0028-00170: 3.3 → 13.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 13.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2.39× in 2022

6962-ABS-0029-0028-00170's TCR rose 9.7 from 3.3 in 2020 to 13.0 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 2.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Fountain Valley, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 160% of ind

  • DART 13.0 DART
  • RANK #1622/4686
  • PHOTO Lowes Foods #162
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lowes Foods #162 (0.0 TCR gap)

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6962-ABS-0029-0028-00170 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 6962-ABS-0029-0028-00170 averages 5.4 TCR (160% of the Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores BLS benchmark).

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

6962-ABS-0029-0028-00170 TCR series: 2020=3.3 · 2021=0 · 2022=13 · BLS 3.4

Where 6962-ABS-0029-0028-00170 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery establishments

Safer than 40% 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 #1622 safest of 4686 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in California.

6962-ABS-0029-0028-00170 (72 employees, TCR 5.4) 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 6962-ABS-0029-0028-00170
6962-ABS-0029-0028-00170 (72 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

6962-ABS-0029-0028-00170 has fewer employees than the Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except C 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
2022 13.0 13.0 0 7 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.3 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Fountain Valley

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 88 employers in Fountain Valley, 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 Lowes Foods #162 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Alfredo Linares Corp 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 0413 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10720 Evergreen Park 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Monterey Pacific, LLC 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arts Ranch 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mellano & Company - Los Angeles Wholesale House 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greg Hooker dba Diamond H Dairy 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR OCM00 ORANGE COAST MEMORIAL MED CTR 1,826 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-024 1,767 FTE
CITY-NEAR MMF00 MEMORIALCARE MED FOUNDATION 1,470 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pan-Pacific Mechanical 924 FTE
NAT-TCR 5472-NAI-0033-0033-00624 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 4499 Acushnet Avenue Operating Company, LLC d/b/a Vibra Hospital of Southeastern Massachusetts 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 417904-Somerset Po 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cass County Memorial Hospital 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4054-ABS-0027-0026-00254 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-ABS-0030-0030-03342 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4795-EA-BHM-BIRMINGHAM-BHM-TRML 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-SWY-0020-0020-02686 72 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.