Floor coverings merchant wholesalers · California

DESOTO

Canoga Park, CA · ~110 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DESOTO runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Floor coverings merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

DESOTO: 1.8 TCR = 82% of Floor coverings merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DESOTO safety composite

DESOTO scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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).

D

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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%).

DESOTO held a steady TCR band

DESOTO's TCR held near 0.2 from 1.9 in 2017 to 1.7 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.95× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.9 · 2018=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423220 · Canoga Park, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 1.8 · 82% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #3/19
  • PHOTO Global Views LP
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Global Views LP (0.1 TCR gap)

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DESOTO in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DESOTO averages 1.8 TCR (82% of the Floor coverings merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

DESOTO TCR series: 2017=1.9 · 2018=1.7 · BLS 2.2

Where DESOTO falls in its industry

146 Floor coverings merchant whole establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 19 Floor coverings merchant whole employers in California.

DESOTO (110 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate DESOTO
DESOTO (110 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 68 employees and a TCR of 2.8

DESOTO has more employees than the Floor coverings merchant wholesalers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2018 1.7 1.7 2 0 0
2017 1.9 1.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423220 · CA · Canoga Park

146 Floor coverings merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 68 employers in Canoga 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 Global Views LP 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CDC Distributors Inc Cincinnati 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richards Homewares, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Safavieh L28 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Queen Victoria Farms, LP 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE River Ridge Farms 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE GH Dairy - California 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Braga Ranch, Inc. Soledad 110 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aerojet Rocketdyne - Los Angeles 1,422 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aerojet Rocketdyne - Canoga Park 1,336 FTE
CITY-NEAR Topanga 503 350 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles Police Department, Topanga Division 262 FTE
NAT-TCR Chicago Parts & Sound-Troy 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ryerson Coon Rapids 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR QPSI Mechanicsburg 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Courtyard Columbus Downtown 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bombardier Transportation - Camden - RiverLine 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Harry's Fresh Foods 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Havelock (Nchav) 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cruiser RV Plant 201 110 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.