Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores · California

6962-SWY-0025-0025-00799

Santa Cruz, CA · ~74 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

6962-SWY-0025-0025-00799 runs at 523% 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-SWY-0025-0025-00799: 17.8 TCR = 523% of Supermarkets and Other Grocery (except Convenience) Stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

6962-SWY-0025-0025-00799 safety composite

6962-SWY-0025-0025-00799 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 17.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 27.37 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-SWY-0025-0025-00799: 12.0 → 29.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 29.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.54× in 2022

6962-SWY-0025-0025-00799's TCR rose 17.2 from 12.0 in 2020 to 29.2 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Santa Cruz, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.8 · 523% of ind

  • DART 27.4 DART
  • RANK #4441/4686
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0094 Sc…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0094 Scottsdale (0.0 TCR gap)

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6962-SWY-0025-0025-00799 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 6962-SWY-0025-0025-00799 averages 17.8 TCR (523% 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-SWY-0025-0025-00799 TCR series: 2020=12 · 2021=12.1 · 2022=29.2 · BLS 3.4

Where 6962-SWY-0025-0025-00799 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 #4441 safest of 4686 Supermarkets and Other Grocery employers in California.

6962-SWY-0025-0025-00799 (74 employees, TCR 17.8) 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-SWY-0025-0025-00799
6962-SWY-0025-0025-00799 (74 employees, TCR 17.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

6962-SWY-0025-0025-00799 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 29.2 27.4 3 13 0
2021 12.1 10.4 4 3 0
2020 12.0 8.6 4 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Santa Cruz

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 · 133 employers in Santa Cruz, 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 0094 Scottsdale 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0187 So. San Francisco 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fontana #033 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-01962 17.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wonderful Orchards-New Columbia 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apricot Lane Farms 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central California Almond Growers (Kerman) 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jose Jesus Garcia Jr 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Santa Cruz 8,081 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030253 1,732 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dignity Health Dominican Hospital 1,652 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030253-253001 DOMINICAN HOSPITAL SANTA CRUZ 1,464 FTE
NAT-TCR 6957-LNK 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR LifeServices - Westlake Woods 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Aicota Health Care Center 17.8 TCR
NAT-TCR AFW Foundry 17.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 6400-SWY-0025-0025-01537 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5472-NAI-0035-0035-01716 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5472-NAI-0035-0035-04832 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6400-SWY-0027-0027-00488 74 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.