Used car merchant wholesalers · California

ADESA San Diego

San Diego, CA · ~53 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

ADESA San Diego runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Used car merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

ADESA San Diego: 2.5 TCR = 111% of Used car merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

ADESA San Diego safety composite

ADESA San Diego scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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).

C

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

ADESA San Diego: 2.7 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 3.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.4× in 2024

ADESA San Diego's TCR rose 0.7 from 2.7 in 2019 to 3.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 3.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423110 · San Diego, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.5 · 111% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #26/96
  • PHOTO Forest Park
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Forest Park (0.0 TCR gap)

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ADESA San Diego in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows ADESA San Diego averages 2.5 TCR (111% of the Used car merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

ADESA San Diego TCR series: 2019=2.7 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.7 · 2024=3.4 · BLS 2.2

Where ADESA San Diego falls in its industry

1,333 Used car merchant wholesalers establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 96 Used car merchant wholesalers employers in California.

ADESA San Diego (53 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate ADESA San Diego
ADESA San Diego (53 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.3

ADESA San Diego has fewer employees than the Used car merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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 3.4 3.4 1 0 0
2021 3.7 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.7 2.7 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423110 · CA · San Diego

1,333 Used car merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,979 employers in San Diego, 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 Forest Park 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 62 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MANHEIM JACKSONVILLE 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prevost - South Plainfield, NJ 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE P-R Farms 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE LRC LABOR SERVICES INC 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Acemi Nursery 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ball Tagawa Growers 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Diego Health 9,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics 8,108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Human Services Agency 6,080 FTE
CITY-NEAR National University 4,955 FTE
NAT-TCR G. M. White Construction, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Morris Masonry Restoration LLC 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1271 Bat34 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Omaha Manufacturing Facility 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Prairie View Healthcare Center 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE John B Parsons 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Intermarine, Inc. 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aspen Ridge Alz 53 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, 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.