Potato chips manufacturing · California

Aaron Thomas Company Garden Grove

Garden Grove, CA · ~299 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Aaron Thomas Company Garden Grove runs at 204% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Potato chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Aaron Thomas Company Garden Grove: 8.4 TCR = 204% of Potato chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Aaron Thomas Company Garden Grove safety composite

Aaron Thomas Company Garden Grove scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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).

D

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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

−8.8

2023→2024

Aaron Thomas Company Garden Grove injury rate improved

Aaron Thomas Company Garden Grove's TCR fell 8.8 from 12.8 in 2023 to 4.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 12.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=12.8 · 2024=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Garden Grove, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 204% of ind

  • DART 0.7 DART
  • RANK #12/15
  • PHOTO Bickels Snack Food W…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~299 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bickels Snack Food WEGE (0.3 TCR gap)

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Aaron Thomas Company Garden Grove in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Aaron Thomas Company Garden Grove averages 8.4 TCR (204% of the Potato chips manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Aaron Thomas Company Garden Grove TCR series: 2023=12.8 · 2024=4 · BLS 4.1

Where Aaron Thomas Company Garden Grove falls in its industry

253 Potato chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 15 Potato chips manufacturing employers in California.

Aaron Thomas Company Garden Grove (299 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Aaron Thomas Company Garden Grove
Aaron Thomas Company Garden Grove (299 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

Aaron Thomas Company Garden Grove has more employees than the Potato chips manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 4.0 0.7 11 0 0
2023 12.8 11.4 36 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · CA · Garden Grove

253 Potato chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 145 employers in Garden Grove, 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 Bickels Snack Food WEGE 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mestizo Foods, LLC 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR P15 - Condor 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Snyders-Lance, Inc 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Peri & Sons Farms of California, LLC 299 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terra Bella 299 FTE
STATE-SIZE Colorado Farms LLC. 299 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henry Leal 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southland Industries 6,124 FTE
CITY-NEAR City Hall 677 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Wolf Lodge 649 FTE
CITY-NEAR King Janitorial Equipment Services 645 FTE
NAT-TCR Forsa Construction LLC 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Haven Manufacturing LLC 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Clackamas Rehabilitation LLC. 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 297 Surprise 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Center East 299 FTE
NAT-SIZE PerLectric 299 FTE
NAT-SIZE York Container Company 299 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hyatt Regency Orlando International Airport 299 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. 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.