Supermarket · California

Central Kitchen

Buena Park, CA · ~63 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central Kitchen runs at 211% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Supermarket workplace, earning a grade F.

Central Kitchen: 7.2 TCR = 211% of Supermarket BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Kitchen safety composite

Central Kitchen scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

Central Kitchen: 4.7 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 9.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2018

Central Kitchen's TCR rose 4.9 from 4.7 in 2017 to 9.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Buena Park, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.2 · 211% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #2504/4686
  • PHOTO SWY-0017-0017-01584 …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SWY-0017-0017-01584 FAC-01584-WICKENBURG-AZ (0.0 TCR gap)

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Central Kitchen in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Central Kitchen averages 7.2 TCR (211% of the Supermarket BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Central Kitchen TCR series: 2017=4.7 · 2018=9.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Central Kitchen falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarket establishments

Safer than 24% 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 #2504 safest of 4686 Supermarket employers in California.

Central Kitchen (63 employees, TCR 7.2) 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 Central Kitchen
Central Kitchen (63 employees, TCR 7.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Central Kitchen has fewer employees than the Supermarket 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
2018 9.6 4.8 6 0 0
2017 4.7 3.7 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Buena Park

30,654 Supermarket employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 112 employers in Buena Park, 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 SWY-0017-0017-01584 FAC-01584-WICKENBURG-AZ 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hangsa Family Management Inc 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABS-0029-0028-04713 FAC-04713-ESCONDIDO-CA 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWY-0029-0029-02501 FAC-02501-SIMI VALLEY-CA 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE HALLMARK SOUTHWEST CORPORATION 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Animal Services 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE PT1-Oakland 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Together Logistics LLC 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon Transportation Services : LAX5 1,220 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-041 910 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - LAX5 898 FTE
CITY-NEAR BUENA PARK CA 831 FTE
NAT-TCR Gallipolis OH Depot 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Production LLC - Marion Road Plant 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Main - Hwy 90 7.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Edison Block 7.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Truyu Clinic DeMers 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Linde - Springville 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE PACE of the Triad 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buttonwood Co., Inc 63 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: 2018, 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.