Grocery stores · California

Food 4 Less - Los Banos

Los Banos, CA · ~68 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Food 4 Less - Los Banos runs at 357% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Food 4 Less - Los Banos: 12.1 TCR = 357% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Food 4 Less - Los Banos safety composite

Food 4 Less - Los Banos scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

−7.7

2016→2023

Food 4 Less - Los Banos injury rate improved

Food 4 Less - Los Banos's TCR fell 7.7 from 15.8 in 2016 to 8.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 21.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=15.8 · 2017=12.9 · 2018=21.9 · 2019=7.0 · 2020=4.9 · 2021=15.0 · 2022=11.4 · 2023=8.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Los Banos, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.1 · 357% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #3891/4686
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0036 Cu…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 58 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0036 Culver City (0.0 TCR gap)

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Food 4 Less - Los Banos in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Food 4 Less - Los Banos averages 12.1 TCR (357% 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 - Los Banos TCR series: 2016=15.8 · 2017=12.9 · 2018=21.9 · 2019=7 · 2020=4.9 · 2021=15 · 2022=11.4 · 2023=8.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Food 4 Less - Los Banos falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 7% 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 #3891 safest of 4686 Grocery stores employers in California.

Food 4 Less - Los Banos (68 employees, TCR 12.1) 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 - Los Banos
Food 4 Less - Los Banos (68 employees, TCR 12.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Food 4 Less - Los Banos 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 8.1 4.9 5 0 0
2022 11.4 11.4 7 0 0
2021 15.0 13.3 9 0 0
2020 4.9 4.9 3 0 0
2019 7.0 7.0 3 1 0
2018 21.9 18.6 13 0 0
2017 12.9 9.7 8 0 0
2016 15.8 12.7 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Los Banos

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 52 employers in Los Banos, 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 Trader Joe's 0036 Culver City 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWY-0025-0025-02941 FAC-02941-PLEASANT HILL-CA 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR KEK INVESTMENTS, INC. 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5472-000000776 12.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE California Valley Land Co. 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE MCFFO 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE VinePro Vineyard Management, Inc. 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knights Grapevine Nursery 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 316 779 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Liberty Packing Company 590 FTE
CITY-NEAR Liberty Packing Company 496 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Valley Hospitals (30738) 374 FTE
NAT-TCR Newport Commissary 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR US Foods Everett 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Darlington County Water & Sewer Authority 12.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Lochmead Dairy INC 12.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Unit #0819 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #0907 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #0982 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #1832 68 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.