Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores · California

6962-ABS-0029-0028-03202

El Cajon, CA · ~115 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

6962-ABS-0029-0028-03202 runs at 535% 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-0029-0028-03202: 18.2 TCR = 535% of Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

6962-ABS-0029-0028-03202 safety composite

6962-ABS-0029-0028-03202 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 28.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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-0029-0028-03202: 8.0 → 29.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 29.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.57× in 2022

6962-ABS-0029-0028-03202's TCR rose 21.6 from 8.0 in 2020 to 29.6 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 18.2 · 535% of ind

  • DART 28.6 DART
  • RANK #4465/4686
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0352 OREM
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~115 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0352 OREM (0.0 TCR gap)

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6962-ABS-0029-0028-03202 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 6962-ABS-0029-0028-03202 averages 18.2 TCR (535% 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-0029-0028-03202 TCR series: 2020=8 · 2021=16.9 · 2022=29.6 · BLS 3.4

Where 6962-ABS-0029-0028-03202 falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets and Other Grocery establishments

Safer than 2% 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 #4465 safest of 4686 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in California.

6962-ABS-0029-0028-03202 (115 employees, TCR 18.2) 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-0029-0028-03202
6962-ABS-0029-0028-03202 (115 employees, TCR 18.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

6962-ABS-0029-0028-03202 has more 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 29.6 28.6 7 22 0
2021 16.9 16.0 11 7 0
2020 8.0 8.0 5 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · El Cajon

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 · 236 employers in El Cajon, 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 0352 OREM 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR PCC Community Markets - Edmonds 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0145 Eugene 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Good Earth Natural Foods, Inc 18.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Buona Terra Farming 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE ROSE & A FLC 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-CSBU - Covina 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Visalia Base - Bld: 0080 - 15 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR SOUTHERN REGION : SDU 1,176 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 370 1,148 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Aerospace Chem-tronics 1,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Aerospace Chem Tronics 938 FTE
NAT-TCR Priority Parcels LLC 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bridgeport Food 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 269 Tinley Park 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR FS 18.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03454 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-ABS-0030-0030-00180 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-ABS-0027-0026-00252 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-ABS-0017-0016-03913 115 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.

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