Private warehousing and storage, general merchandise · California

Backcountry - Palo Alto

Palo Alto, CA · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
9.9
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Backcountry - Palo Alto runs at 171% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Private warehousing and storage, general merchandise workplace, earning a grade D.

Backcountry - Palo Alto: 9.9 TCR = 171% of Private warehousing and storage, general merchandise BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Backcountry - Palo Alto safety composite

Backcountry - Palo Alto scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−19.9

2023→2024

Backcountry - Palo Alto injury rate improved

Backcountry - Palo Alto's TCR fell 19.9 from 19.9 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 19.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=19.9 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493110 · Palo Alto, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 9.9 · 171% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #973/1131
  • PHOTO Hollingsworth USPS A…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hollingsworth USPS Auburn (0.0 TCR gap)

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Backcountry - Palo Alto in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Backcountry - Palo Alto averages 9.9 TCR (171% of the Private warehousing and storage, general merchandise BLS benchmark).

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

Backcountry - Palo Alto TCR series: 2023=19.9 · 2024=0 · BLS 5.8

Where Backcountry - Palo Alto falls in its industry

9,477 Private warehousing and storag establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #973 safest of 1131 Private warehousing and storag employers in California.

Backcountry - Palo Alto (20 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Backcountry - Palo Alto
Backcountry - Palo Alto (20 employees, TCR 9.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 92 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Backcountry - Palo Alto has fewer employees than the Private warehousing and storage, general median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 19.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493110 · CA · Palo Alto

9,477 Private warehousing and storage, general merchandise employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 116 employers in Palo Alto, 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 Hollingsworth USPS Auburn 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5711 Bonded Logistics 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR WSI- Allentown 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - SBD2 9.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sills Farms, Inc. 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE F A Maggiore & Sons, LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE CALMEX CONTRACTING INC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Velvet Antler Ranch LLC 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stanford Health Care 16,371 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-CA-Palo Alto-Deer Creek-Office 1,878 FTE
CITY-NEAR Varian, Palo Alto 1,396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-10110) 1,227 FTE
NAT-TCR St. Augustine Plantation 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Groschopp 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Habasit Globe Inc 9.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Seattle Fish Company LLC 9.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE New Hyde Park 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mcdorman Construction, Inc. 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ryan Carpet Sales & Service 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ohio Valley Stow 20 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.