Used merchandise stores · California

Capitola #20

Capitola, CA · ~36 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Capitola #20 runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Used merchandise stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Capitola #20: 5.4 TCR = 159% of Used merchandise stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Capitola #20 safety composite

Capitola #20 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Capitola #20: 4.6 → 11.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.2 TCR · DART/TCR 2.08× in 2024

Capitola #20's TCR rose 6.6 from 4.6 in 2020 to 11.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.08× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 453310 · Capitola, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 159% of ind

  • DART 11.2 DART
  • RANK #34/82
  • PHOTO Store 81
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 81 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Capitola #20 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Capitola #20 averages 5.4 TCR (159% of the Used merchandise stores BLS benchmark).

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

Capitola #20 TCR series: 2020=4.6 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=11.2 · 2024=11.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Capitola #20 falls in its industry

1,556 Used merchandise stores establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 82 Used merchandise stores employers in California.

Capitola #20 (36 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Capitola #20
Capitola #20 (36 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Capitola #20 has more employees than the Used merchandise stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2024 11.2 11.2 1 2 0
2023 11.2 11.2 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 4.6 4.6 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

453310 · CA · Capitola

1,556 Used merchandise stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 29 employers in Capitola, 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 Store 81 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clarion store 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goodwill CFL - W Melb 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sully Station 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE River Garden Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knight Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.H. MEEK & SONS INC. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dirt Farmer and Company 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2795 - Capitola 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR Capitola Gayle's Inc. 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR Capitola 364 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toyota of Santa Cruz 141 FTE
NAT-TCR Avalon Foodservice, Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ottawa Friendship House, Work Activity Center, Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 630 - Baltimore 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Frontier Mechanical Inc. 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE VNA Care Network 3 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Morton Machining dba Marion Manufacturing 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE DuPont Specialty Products USA LLC 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sika Corporation Sealy 36 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.