Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale · California

Central Kitchen

Torrance, CA · ~94 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.4
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Central Kitchen runs at 376% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale workplace, earning a grade F.

Central Kitchen: 15.4 TCR = 376% of Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS 4.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Central Kitchen safety composite

Central Kitchen scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.3

2023→2024

Central Kitchen injury rate improved

Central Kitchen's TCR fell 6.3 from 18.5 in 2023 to 12.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 18.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=18.5 · 2024=12.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311991 · Torrance, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.4 · 376% of ind

  • DART 12.3 DART
  • RANK #57/69
  • PHOTO John's Genova Delica…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: John's Genova Delicatessen, Inc. (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 15.4 TCR (376% of the Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale BLS benchmark).

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

Central Kitchen TCR series: 2023=18.5 · 2024=12.3 · BLS 4.1

Where Central Kitchen falls in its industry

376 Food, prepared, perishable, pa establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #57 safest of 69 Food, prepared, perishable, pa employers in California.

Central Kitchen (94 employees, TCR 15.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Central Kitchen
Central Kitchen (94 employees, TCR 15.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 179 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Central Kitchen has fewer employees than the Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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 12.3 12.3 10 0 0
2023 18.5 14.8 15 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311991 · CA · Torrance

376 Food, prepared, perishable, packaged for individual resale 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 John's Genova Delicatessen, Inc. 15.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR QT Kitchens - Phoenix 15.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR HMC Fresh Foods, LLC 15.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bakkavor Charlotte 15.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE MORALES FARM LABOR SERVICE 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fondomonte CA - Blythe Farm 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Robinson Enterprises, Inc 94 FTE
STATE-SIZE Javier Martinez Contracting 94 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 Tilden Community Center 15.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Clark Lane Middle School 15.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Environmental Enhancements 15.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1216 15.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Beacon Promotions Inc 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jacksonville 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Raleigh Durham 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Chicago Suburbs 94 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. 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.