Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores · California

6962-ABS-0029-0028-00355

Carpinteria, CA · ~98 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

6962-ABS-0029-0028-00355 runs at 358% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

6962-ABS-0029-0028-00355: 12.2 TCR = 358% of Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

6962-ABS-0029-0028-00355 safety composite

6962-ABS-0029-0028-00355 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 21.47 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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-0029-0028-00355: 2.6 → 21.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 21.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.77× in 2022

6962-ABS-0029-0028-00355's TCR rose 18.9 from 2.6 in 2020 to 21.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Carpinteria, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.2 · 358% of ind

  • DART 21.5 DART
  • RANK #3896/4686
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0035 Co…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0035 Costa Mesa (0.0 TCR gap)

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6962-ABS-0029-0028-00355 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 6962-ABS-0029-0028-00355 averages 12.2 TCR (358% 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-0029-0028-00355 TCR series: 2020=2.6 · 2021=12.5 · 2022=21.5 · BLS 3.4

Where 6962-ABS-0029-0028-00355 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery establishments

Safer than 7% 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 #3896 safest of 4686 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in California.

6962-ABS-0029-0028-00355 (98 employees, TCR 12.2) 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-0029-0028-00355
6962-ABS-0029-0028-00355 (98 employees, TCR 12.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

6962-ABS-0029-0028-00355 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 21.5 21.5 3 14 0
2021 12.5 10.0 5 5 0
2020 2.6 2.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Carpinteria

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 · 45 employers in Carpinteria, 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 Trader Joe's 0035 Costa Mesa 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0586 Glastonbury 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02164 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0699 Algonquin 12.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Coastal GVIC Ranches 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chapala Berry Farms 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ag-Wise Enterprises, Inc 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bains Orchards Inc. 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 166 661 FTE
CITY-NEAR LinkedIn Carpinteria 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coastal Blooms Nursery, LLC 326 FTE
CITY-NEAR NuSil Technology, Carpinteria 322 FTE
NAT-TCR Three Rivers Ambulance 12.2 TCR
NAT-TCR HG648 12.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Midwest Post-Acute Care PLLC 12.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Mt Hood Meadows Oreg LLC 12.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03451 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-ABS-0027-0026-00206 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-ABS-0019-0018-03542 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-ABS-0019-0018-03529 98 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.