retailing childrens items · California

buybuy Baby Torrance

Torrance, CA · ~45 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

buybuy Baby Torrance runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical retailing childrens items workplace, earning a grade D.

buybuy Baby Torrance: 4.5 TCR = 134% of retailing childrens items BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

buybuy Baby Torrance safety composite

buybuy Baby Torrance scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 45%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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%).

buybuy Baby Torrance held a steady TCR band

buybuy Baby Torrance's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=0.0 · 2020=8.8 · 2021=9.4 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 448130 · Torrance, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.5 · 134% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #11/16
  • PHOTO buybuy Baby Sandy
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: buybuy Baby Sandy (0.0 TCR gap)

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buybuy Baby Torrance in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows buybuy Baby Torrance averages 4.5 TCR (134% of the retailing childrens items BLS benchmark).

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

buybuy Baby Torrance TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=8.8 · 2021=9.4 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.4

Where buybuy Baby Torrance falls in its industry

127 retailing childrens items establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 16 retailing childrens items employers in California.

buybuy Baby Torrance (45 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 29 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 050100150200 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate buybuy Baby Torrance
buybuy Baby Torrance (45 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 29 employees and a TCR of 3.8

buybuy Baby Torrance has more employees than the retailing childrens items median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 9.4 4.7 2 0 0
2020 8.8 4.4 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

448130 · CA · Torrance

127 retailing childrens items employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 332 employers in Torrance, 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 buybuy Baby Sandy 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR buybuy Baby Webster 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR buybuy Baby Columbus Easton 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR buybuy Baby Scottsdale 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Salinas Transplant Company 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terra Firma Farm 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donald Beeman Farm 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berry Mist Farms, LP 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harbor-UCLA Medical Center 4,144 FTE
CITY-NEAR Torrance Memorial Medical Center 3,808 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles 3,229 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 494 2,621 FTE
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond Brandon 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bed Bath and Beyond West Palm Beach 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR York Street Fresh Foods 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Interceramic Headquarters 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bed Bath and Beyond Boca Raton 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bed Bath and Beyond Chicago 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bed Bath and Beyond West Babylon 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE buybuy Baby Scarsdale 45 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: 2022, 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.