Grocery stores · California

Food 4 Less - Ceres

Ceres, CA · ~70 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Food 4 Less - Ceres runs at 217% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Food 4 Less - Ceres: 7.4 TCR = 217% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Food 4 Less - Ceres safety composite

Food 4 Less - Ceres scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

−9.0

2016→2023

Food 4 Less - Ceres injury rate improved

Food 4 Less - Ceres's TCR fell 9.0 from 14.2 in 2016 to 5.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2016 at 14.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=14.2 · 2017=5.4 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=9.1 · 2020=4.9 · 2021=8.0 · 2022=6.6 · 2023=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Ceres, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.4 · 217% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #2592/4686
  • PHOTO The Fresh Market 139
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 139 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Food 4 Less - Ceres in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Food 4 Less - Ceres averages 7.4 TCR (217% 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 - Ceres TCR series: 2016=14.2 · 2017=5.4 · 2018=5.6 · 2019=9.1 · 2020=4.9 · 2021=8 · 2022=6.6 · 2023=5.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Food 4 Less - Ceres falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #2592 safest of 4686 Grocery stores employers in California.

Food 4 Less - Ceres (70 employees, TCR 7.4) 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 - Ceres
Food 4 Less - Ceres (70 employees, TCR 7.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Food 4 Less - Ceres 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 5.2 5.2 3 0 0
2022 6.6 5.0 4 0 0
2021 8.0 6.4 5 0 0
2020 4.9 1.6 3 0 0
2019 9.1 7.5 6 0 0
2018 5.6 3.7 3 0 0
2017 5.4 1.8 3 0 0
2016 14.2 7.1 5 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Ceres

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 61 employers in Ceres, 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 The Fresh Market 139 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Evesham Rd Supermarket LLC 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ShopRite of Newark 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Festival Foods Hugo 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Heritage Land Company 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ceballos Ag Services, Inc. 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRTHN 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE EW Merritt Farms 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-227 914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bronco Wine Company 668 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dan Avila & Sons - Farming 564 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1983 390 FTE
NAT-TCR Ernest-Spencer Metals Topeka 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Micro Metals 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR GreenLawn Specialists 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunray Farms LLC 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Fiesta # 50 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #0168 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #0620 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #0794 70 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.