Grocery stores · California

Food 4 Less - Hammer Lane

Name: Food 4 Less - Hammer Lane Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Stockton, CA · ~93 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 6.6
Avg TCR: 3.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Food 4 Less - Hammer Lane runs at 194% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Food 4 Less - Hammer Lane: 6.6 TCR = 194% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Food 4 Less - Hammer Lane safety composite

Food 4 Less - Hammer Lane scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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).

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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 - Hammer Lane: 4.5 → 8.2 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2023

Food 4 Less - Hammer Lane's TCR rose 3.7 from 4.5 in 2016 to 8.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.6 · 194% of ind

DART 5.8 DART
RANK #2236/4686
PHOTO The Fresh Market 120
BOOK 8y book
INJ 43 inj
SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Fresh Market 120 (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Fresh Mark

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Redner's Wareh

6.6
704-00315

6.6
704-00363

6.6

What this shows Food 4 Less - Hammer Lane averages 6.6 TCR (194% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

Food 4 Less - Hammer Lane TCR series: 2016=4.5 · 2017=11.3 · 2018=3.4 · 2019=7.8 · 2020=6.1 · 2021=9.3 · 2022=2.3 · 2023=8.2 · BLS 3.4

Where Food 4 Less - Hammer Lane falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2236 safest of 4686 Grocery stores employers in California.

Food 4 Less - Hammer Lane (93 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Food 4 Less - Hammer Lane 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
2023	8.2	5.8	7	0
2022	2.3	1.1	2	0
2021	9.3	9.3	8	0
2020	6.1	4.9	4	1
2019	7.8	6.2	5	0
2018	3.4	3.4	3	0
2017	11.3	9.0	10	0
2016	4.5	3.4	4	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Stockton

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 605 employers in Stockton, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	The Fresh Market 120	ST. PETERSBURG, FL	6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Redner's Warehouse Market Palmer	PALMER, PA	6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	704-00315	PERRIS, CA	6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	704-00363	LOS ANGELES, CA	6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Mt. View Farming, Inc.	TULARE	93 FTE
STATE-SIZE	PAC-MAN	OXNARD	93 FTE
STATE-SIZE	E A & T	OXNARD	93 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Mountain Meadow Mushroom Farms, Inc.	ESCONDIDO	93 FTE
CITY-NEAR	LaSalette Care and Rehabilitation Center	Stockton	5,249 FTE
CITY-NEAR	SCKCX0ABX SCK - ABX	Stockton	4,573 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CA-18	Stockton	4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CDCR CA Health Care Facility	Stockton	3,227 FTE
NAT-TCR	Windsor	Windsor, WI	6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	EFC3	Mechanicsburg, PA	6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	AdventHealth Care Center Waterman	Tavares, FL	6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Moline School District	Moline, IL	6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Unit #2159	Boynton Beach, FL	93 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Unit #2881	Houston, TX	93 FTE
NAT-SIZE	BAE Systems - Aberdeen, SD	Aberdeen, SD	93 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hotel Indigo Lower East Side	New York, NY	93 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.

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