Retail Hardware Stores · California

El Cajon, Ca #00014

El Cajon, CA · ~21 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

El Cajon, Ca #00014 runs at 254% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Hardware Stores workplace, earning a grade F.

El Cajon, Ca #00014: 8.6 TCR = 254% of Retail Hardware Stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

El Cajon, Ca #00014 safety composite

El Cajon, Ca #00014 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.4

2019→2023

El Cajon, Ca #00014 injury rate improved

El Cajon, Ca #00014's TCR fell 6.4 from 14.0 in 2019 to 7.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 14.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=14.0 · 2020=6.7 · 2021=7.1 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=7.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444130 · El Cajon, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 254% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #154/241
  • PHOTO UNION, NJ #00395
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: UNION, NJ #00395 (0.0 TCR gap)

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El Cajon, Ca #00014 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows El Cajon, Ca #00014 averages 8.6 TCR (254% of the Retail Hardware Stores BLS benchmark).

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

El Cajon, Ca #00014 TCR series: 2019=14 · 2020=6.7 · 2021=7.1 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=7.7 · BLS 3.4

Where El Cajon, Ca #00014 falls in its industry

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #154 safest of 241 Retail Hardware Stores employers in California.

El Cajon, Ca #00014 (21 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate El Cajon, Ca #00014
El Cajon, Ca #00014 (21 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 6.2

El Cajon, Ca #00014 has fewer employees than the Retail Hardware Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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
2023 7.7 7.7 1 0 0
2022 7.7 0.0 1 0 0
2021 7.1 0.0 1 0 0
2020 6.7 6.7 1 0 0
2019 14.0 14.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444130 · CA · El Cajon

1,493 Retail Hardware Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 236 employers in El Cajon, 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 UNION, NJ #00395 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0056 - ALBUQUERQUE, NM 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2807-0731X 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Atwoods 11 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Poso Ridge,LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE TELESIS ONION CO., INC. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mayflower Farms Inc 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR SOUTHERN REGION : SDU 1,176 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 370 1,148 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Aerospace Chem-tronics 1,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR GKN Aerospace Chem Tronics 938 FTE
NAT-TCR Fiesta Canning Company 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Caldwell Care of Cascadia 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1213 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Border States Electric - Cedar Rapids 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fort Worth, Tx #00048 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boise, Id #00054 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minerals Research, Inc. 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shreveport, La #00073 21 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.