Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage · California

Dawn Food Products - Southwest Distribution Center

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

D
Poor Safety Record
9.3
Avg TCR
5.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dawn Food Products - Southwest Distribution Center runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage workplace, earning a grade D.

Dawn Food Products - Southwest Distribution Center: 9.3 TCR = 160% of Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage BLS 5.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dawn Food Products - Southwest Distribution Center safety composite

Dawn Food Products - Southwest Distribution Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Dawn Food Products - Southwest Distribution Center: 5.8 → 12.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 12.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2018

Dawn Food Products - Southwest Distribution Center's TCR rose 6.9 from 5.8 in 2016 to 12.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 493120 · Ontario, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 9.3 · 160% of ind

  • DART 9.8 DART
  • RANK #112/125
  • PHOTO Amarillo Freezer
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~94 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Amarillo Freezer (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dawn Food Products - Southwest Distribution Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dawn Food Products - Southwest Distribution Center averages 9.3 TCR (160% of the Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage BLS benchmark).

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

Dawn Food Products - Southwest Distribution Center TCR series: 2016=5.8 · 2018=12.8 · BLS 5.8

Where Dawn Food Products - Southwest Distribution Center falls in its industry

1,039 Refrigerated Warehousing and S establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #112 safest of 125 Refrigerated Warehousing and S employers in California.

Dawn Food Products - Southwest Distribution Center (94 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Dawn Food Products - Southwest Distribution Center
Dawn Food Products - Southwest Distribution Center (94 employees, TCR 9.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Dawn Food Products - Southwest Distribution Center has more employees than the Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 12.8 9.8 13 0 0
2016 5.8 5.8 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

493120 · CA · Ontario

1,039 Refrigerated Warehousing and Storage employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 599 employers in Ontario, 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 Amarillo Freezer 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richmond 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sandston - PRW 9.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Co 01 Maines Paper & Food Service, Inc. 9.3 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 Prime Healthcare Services Inc. Location: St. Mary's, Passaic LLC 46-3499370 (HP29) 10,997 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAONA - ONTARIO HUB 4,372 FTE
CITY-NEAR ONTARIO HUB (CAONA) 3,354 FTE
CITY-NEAR Atlantic Solutions Group Inc, Inc. DBA Empire Workforce Solutions 3,240 FTE
NAT-TCR Allentown (Pabtn) 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Air Technologies 66 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR HealthSouth - Rehabilitation Hospital of Williamson County 9.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 476 ABC Supply Co., Inc 9.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Waco/Belton Construction 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lighthouse Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pine Shadow 94 FTE
NAT-SIZE IND - Airport United Airlines Offices 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: 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.