Grocery stores · California

Berkeley Natural Grocery Company

Berkeley, CA · ~22 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Berkeley Natural Grocery Company runs at 251% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Berkeley Natural Grocery Company: 8.5 TCR = 251% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Berkeley Natural Grocery Company safety composite

Berkeley Natural Grocery Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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 8.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Berkeley Natural Grocery Company: 4.9 → 16.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 16.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.96× in 2024

Berkeley Natural Grocery Company's TCR rose 11.8 from 4.9 in 2017 to 16.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Berkeley, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 251% of ind

  • DART 16.7 DART
  • RANK #2983/4686
  • PHOTO 10496 Wynnewood
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 10496 Wynnewood (0.0 TCR gap)

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Berkeley Natural Grocery Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Berkeley Natural Grocery Company averages 8.5 TCR (251% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Berkeley Natural Grocery Company TCR series: 2017=4.9 · 2019=5.1 · 2020=12.3 · 2021=6.1 · 2022=6.2 · 2024=16.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Berkeley Natural Grocery Company falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2983 safest of 4686 Grocery stores employers in California.

Berkeley Natural Grocery Company (22 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Berkeley Natural Grocery Company
Berkeley Natural Grocery Company (22 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Berkeley Natural Grocery Company has fewer employees than the Grocery stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 16.7 16.7 3 0 0
2022 6.2 6.2 1 0 0
2021 6.1 6.1 1 0 0
2020 12.3 12.3 2 0 0
2019 5.1 5.1 1 0 0
2017 4.9 4.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Berkeley

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 120 employers in Berkeley, 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 10496 Wynnewood 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Piggly Wiggly #93/Ace #17894 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABS-0005-0004-00801 FAC-00801-DURANGO-CO 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABS-0029-0028-00758 FAC-00758-SPRING VALLEY-CA 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE LaGrande Farms 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Del Carlo Farms, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Linda Vista Farms 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE MOUNTAIN VIEW FARM SHOP 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Berkeley 22,120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (213-ABH) 1,998 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Bay Hospitals (30391) 1,917 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berkeley, CA 1,106 FTE
NAT-TCR Wilson Lumber Company, Inc. Madison Truss 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Saint Francis 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TPI Mayaguez 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Portland 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE A & S Fabricating Co. 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Horizon Home Timothy/Bethany 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barbourville Store 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE PLANT 22 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017. 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.