Employer · California

American Red Cross - 4229 Ponderosa Ave

San Diego, CA · ~37 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.7
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

American Red Cross - 4229 Ponderosa Ave runs at 281% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

American Red Cross - 4229 Ponderosa Ave: 10.7 TCR = 281% of industry BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

American Red Cross - 4229 Ponderosa Ave safety composite

American Red Cross - 4229 Ponderosa Ave scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

American Red Cross - 4229 Ponderosa Ave: 0.0 → 11.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 20.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.52× in 2023

American Red Cross - 4229 Ponderosa Ave's TCR rose 11.1 from 0.0 in 2021 to 11.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 20.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621991 · San Diego, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.7 · 281% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #71/82
  • PHOTO Great Falls, MT-BioL…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Great Falls, MT-BioLife (0.0 TCR gap)

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American Red Cross - 4229 Ponderosa Ave in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows American Red Cross - 4229 Ponderosa Ave averages 10.7 TCR (281% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

American Red Cross - 4229 Ponderosa Ave TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=20.9 · 2023=11.1 · BLS 3.8

Where American Red Cross - 4229 Ponderosa Ave falls in its industry

1,713 industry establishments

Safer than 8% 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 #71 safest of 82 industry employers in California.

American Red Cross - 4229 Ponderosa Ave (37 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate American Red Cross - 4229 Ponderosa Ave
American Red Cross - 4229 Ponderosa Ave (37 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 4.3

American Red Cross - 4229 Ponderosa Ave has fewer employees than the industry median and a higher 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
2023 11.1 5.5 4 0 0
2022 20.9 7.8 8 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621991 · CA · San Diego

1,713 industry 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 Great Falls, MT-BioLife 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hayden, ID-Biolife 624 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boise, ID-BioLife 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kedplasma - Gastonia 10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE BULLSEYE FARMS LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE KP Spraying LLC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE KAN - 01 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kimberlina Shop 37 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 PSM 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR RK-044-Champaign ( RK-044 ) 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Granite City Electric Supply Co Chicopee 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenwood Connections 10.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nelson True Value 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Houston Sales Office 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Farmerville Administration 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ultra Company Inc 37 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.