Powders, baking, manufacturing · California

CPKelco San Diego Plant

San Diego, CA · ~239 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.9
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CPKelco San Diego Plant runs at 71% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Powders, baking, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

CPKelco San Diego Plant: 2.9 TCR = 71% of Powders, baking, manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CPKelco San Diego Plant safety composite

CPKelco San Diego Plant scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.14 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%).

CPKelco San Diego Plant held a steady TCR band

CPKelco San Diego Plant's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.7 in 2018 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 5.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=1.7 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=5.0 · 2021=5.0 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311999 · San Diego, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.9 · 71% of ind

  • DART 1.1 DART
  • RANK #9/26
  • PHOTO ZoRoCo Packaging-Fro…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~239 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ZoRoCo Packaging-Frozen (0.0 TCR gap)

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CPKelco San Diego Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CPKelco San Diego Plant averages 2.9 TCR (71% of the Powders, baking, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

CPKelco San Diego Plant TCR series: 2018=1.7 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=5 · 2021=5 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=1.3 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 4.1

Where CPKelco San Diego Plant falls in its industry

335 Powders, baking, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 59% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 26 Powders, baking, manufacturing employers in California.

CPKelco San Diego Plant (239 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate CPKelco San Diego Plant
CPKelco San Diego Plant (239 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 3.7

CPKelco San Diego Plant has more employees than the Powders, baking, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2024 1.9 1.1 5 0 0
2023 1.3 1.3 3 0 0
2022 3.8 3.4 9 0 0
2021 5.0 5.0 9 2 0
2020 5.0 4.1 8 3 0
2019 1.7 0.4 4 0 0
2018 1.7 1.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311999 · CA · San Diego

335 Powders, baking, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,979 employers in San Diego, 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 ZoRoCo Packaging-Frozen 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR DCB Savannah 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Deb El Food Products Elizabeth 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sensient Flavors - Juneau WI 2.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE T&A - Salinas - Admin 239 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bidart Bros. et al 239 FTE
STATE-SIZE A&D Fire Sprinklers, Inc. 239 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bell Bros. Plumbing, Heating and Air 239 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Diego Health 9,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics 8,108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Human Services Agency 6,080 FTE
CITY-NEAR National University 4,955 FTE
NAT-TCR WireCo WorldGroup Rosenberg 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Newberry 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Centro Emergencias y Medicina Intengrada 2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR PDC, Inc. 2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Gulf Coast Pipeline Services 239 FTE
NAT-SIZE M. G. McGrath, Inc. 239 FTE
NAT-SIZE CS Wholesale Grocers : Aberdeen, MD (FDC) 239 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Antonio Food Bank 239 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.