Fast-food restaurants · California

Costa Mesa

Costa Mesa, CA · ~52 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Costa Mesa runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fast-food restaurants workplace, earning a grade C.

Costa Mesa: 2.7 TCR = 91% of Fast-food restaurants BLS 3.0 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Costa Mesa safety composite

Costa Mesa scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 0%), 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).

C

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 0% 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

−4.7

2016→2024

Costa Mesa injury rate improved

Costa Mesa's TCR fell 4.7 from 4.7 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.7 · 2017=1.2 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=4.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=14.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722513 · Costa Mesa, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 91% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #51/264
  • PHOTO BK-Aikahi #608
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~52 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BK-Aikahi #608 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Costa Mesa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Costa Mesa averages 2.7 TCR (91% of the Fast-food restaurants BLS benchmark).

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

Costa Mesa TCR series: 2016=4.7 · 2017=1.2 · 2018=0 · 2019=4 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=14.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.0

Where Costa Mesa falls in its industry

1,014 Fast-food restaurants establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #51 safest of 264 Fast-food restaurants employers in California.

Costa Mesa (52 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Costa Mesa
Costa Mesa (52 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Costa Mesa has more employees than the Fast-food restaurants median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 14.7 14.7 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 4.0 0.0 4 0 1
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2016 4.7 4.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722513 · CA · Costa Mesa

1,014 Fast-food restaurants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 185 employers in Costa Mesa, 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 BK-Aikahi #608 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR JACK IN THE BOX 517 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR STORE 30367 2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR STORE 12913 2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Phil Foster Ranch 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oceano Packing Company 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | Ivanhoe 52 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brassfield Estate Vineyard 52 FTE
CITY-NEAR PACIFIC AMPHITHEATER 863 FTE
CITY-NEAR OC Fair & Event Center 861 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Costa Mesa 670 FTE
CITY-NEAR PACWEST Security Services 567 FTE
NAT-TCR Hillside Heights Rehabilitation Suites 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Alnye Trucking LLC 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR PT-OIC 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Newark Brewery 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big R of Falcon, Inc. 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE A.C.E. Building Service 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE HellermannTyton 87th 52 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newton County Development Landfill 52 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.