Grocery stores · California

Food 4 Less - Arroyo Grande

Arroyo Grande, CA · ~55 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Food 4 Less - Arroyo Grande runs at 244% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Food 4 Less - Arroyo Grande: 8.3 TCR = 244% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Food 4 Less - Arroyo Grande safety composite

Food 4 Less - Arroyo Grande scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Food 4 Less - Arroyo Grande: 0.0 → 12.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 16.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.02× in 2023

Food 4 Less - Arroyo Grande's TCR rose 12.7 from 0.0 in 2016 to 12.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 16.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Arroyo Grande, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 244% of ind

  • DART 8.5 DART
  • RANK #2904/4686
  • PHOTO Store 1482
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~55 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Store 1482 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Food 4 Less - Arroyo Grande in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Food 4 Less - Arroyo Grande averages 8.3 TCR (244% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Food 4 Less - Arroyo Grande TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=10.5 · 2018=16.9 · 2019=8.5 · 2020=1.9 · 2021=11.7 · 2022=4 · 2023=12.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Food 4 Less - Arroyo Grande falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2904 safest of 4686 Grocery stores employers in California.

Food 4 Less - Arroyo Grande (55 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Food 4 Less - Arroyo Grande
Food 4 Less - Arroyo Grande (55 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Food 4 Less - Arroyo Grande has fewer employees than the Grocery stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2023 12.7 8.5 6 0 0
2022 4.0 4.0 2 0 0
2021 11.7 7.8 5 1 0
2020 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2019 8.5 8.5 4 0 0
2018 16.9 12.7 8 0 0
2017 10.5 7.0 6 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Arroyo Grande

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 33 employers in Arroyo Grande, 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 Store 1482 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABS-0029-0028-00740 FAC-00740-OCEANSIDE-CA 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWY-0005-0005-02810 FAC-02810-MONTE VISTA-CO 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWY-0025-0025-02900 FAC-02900-SAN JOSE-CA 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE FARMING ADMINISTRATION 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dwelley Family Farms LLC 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-Valley Vineyard Management 55 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cornerstone Certified Vineyard 55 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030365 439 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marian Regional Medica Center - Arroyo Grande Campus 380 FTE
CITY-NEAR Papich Construction 223 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2556 214 FTE
NAT-TCR Neville 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ft Myers 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Stop & Shop 100561 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kaukauna Area SD * 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE C&B American Building Services Wheeling, IL 600 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE PPI Plumbing 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE MCR Cleveland Tenant LLC 55 FTE
NAT-SIZE Indiana Spine Hospital - Carmel 55 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, 2018, 2017, 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.