Department Stores · California

71523

Costa Mesa, CA · ~501 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

71523 runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Department Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

71523: 4.6 TCR = 136% of Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

71523 safety composite

71523 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

−2.4

2019→2024

71523 injury rate improved

71523's TCR fell 2.4 from 5.7 in 2019 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=5.7 · 2020=5.5 · 2021=5.0 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452210 · Costa Mesa, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.6 · 136% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #254/379
  • PHOTO 753 Palmdale
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 100 inj
  • SIZE ~501 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 753 Palmdale (0.0 TCR gap)

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71523 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 71523 averages 4.6 TCR (136% of the Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

71523 TCR series: 2019=5.7 · 2020=5.5 · 2021=5 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.4

Where 71523 falls in its industry

2,917 Department Stores establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #254 safest of 379 Department Stores employers in California.

71523 (501 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 71523
71523 (501 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 3.1

71523 has more employees than the Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 3.3 3.0 11 1 0
2023 4.5 3.7 14 2 0
2022 3.7 3.2 13 1 0
2021 5.0 4.7 17 1 0
2020 5.5 3.8 16 0 0
2019 5.7 4.5 29 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452210 · CA · Costa Mesa

2,917 Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 185 employers in Costa Mesa, 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 753 Palmdale 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 71013 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 72061 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Farm and Fleet of Monroe 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Adelanto 501 FTE
STATE-SIZE The People Concern - 14th St. 501 FTE
STATE-SIZE The People Concern - 16th St. 501 FTE
STATE-SIZE The People Concern - Access 501 FTE
CITY-NEAR PACIFIC AMPHITHEATER 863 FTE
CITY-NEAR OC Fair & Event Center 861 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Costa Mesa 670 FTE
CITY-NEAR PACWEST Security Services 567 FTE
NAT-TCR 40233 - Capstone Kroger Phoenix Az 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Valid Electric Co., Inc. 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fargo 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Steele AL 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mueller Copper Tube Company 501 FTE
NAT-SIZE ADA Harvesting, LLC 501 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schaeffler Group USA Inc. - Corp. & Engineering 501 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cookie Kingdom 501 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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