Grocery stores · California

Bristol Farms Palm Desert

Palm Desert, CA · ~81 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bristol Farms Palm Desert runs at 311% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Bristol Farms Palm Desert: 10.6 TCR = 311% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bristol Farms Palm Desert safety composite

Bristol Farms Palm Desert scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Bristol Farms Palm Desert: 1.6 → 8.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 21.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2021

Bristol Farms Palm Desert's TCR rose 7.1 from 1.6 in 2017 to 8.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 21.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Palm Desert, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.6 · 311% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #3567/4686
  • PHOTO 10260 Redmond
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 10260 Redmond (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bristol Farms Palm Desert in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bristol Farms Palm Desert averages 10.6 TCR (311% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Bristol Farms Palm Desert TCR series: 2017=1.6 · 2020=21.3 · 2021=8.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Bristol Farms Palm Desert falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 11% 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 #3567 safest of 4686 Grocery stores employers in California.

Bristol Farms Palm Desert (81 employees, TCR 10.6) 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 Bristol Farms Palm Desert
Bristol Farms Palm Desert (81 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Bristol Farms Palm Desert 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
2021 8.8 5.3 3 2 0
2020 21.3 21.3 2 11 0
2017 1.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Palm Desert

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 106 employers in Palm Desert, 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 10260 Redmond 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20500002-371 STORE 371 - WILSHIRE 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 2226 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 612 Tul65 10.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Allied Potato Inc. 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE STS Ranch LLC 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE C. R CRAIN AND SONS, INC 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Miramar 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort and Spa 994 FTE
CITY-NEAR JW Marriott Desert Springs 800 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marriott Shadow Ridge 404 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5096 357 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 1 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Shellys - Quakertown 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Aurora-Staples Delivery Operations (SDO) 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Touchpoints at Chestnut 10.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Teton Post Acute Care 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cranberry 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE New Stanton 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Winzeler Coupling and Ferrule 81 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: 2021, 2020, 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.