Grocery stores · California

Food 4 Less - Salinas

Salinas, CA · ~65 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Food 4 Less - Salinas runs at 321% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Food 4 Less - Salinas: 10.9 TCR = 321% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Food 4 Less - Salinas safety composite

Food 4 Less - Salinas scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

−2.8

2016→2023

Food 4 Less - Salinas injury rate improved

Food 4 Less - Salinas's TCR fell 2.8 from 11.8 in 2016 to 9.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 17.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.8 · 2017=17.0 · 2018=14.3 · 2019=7.4 · 2020=9.0 · 2021=13.3 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=9.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.9 · 321% of ind

  • DART 9.0 DART
  • RANK #3636/4686
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0502 Ca…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0502 Cambridge (0.0 TCR gap)

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Food 4 Less - Salinas in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Food 4 Less - Salinas averages 10.9 TCR (321% 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 - Salinas TCR series: 2016=11.8 · 2017=17 · 2018=14.3 · 2019=7.4 · 2020=9 · 2021=13.3 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=9 · BLS 3.4

Where Food 4 Less - Salinas falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #3636 safest of 4686 Grocery stores employers in California.

Food 4 Less - Salinas (65 employees, TCR 10.9) 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 - Salinas
Food 4 Less - Salinas (65 employees, TCR 10.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Food 4 Less - Salinas 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 9.0 9.0 5 0 0
2022 5.3 5.3 3 0 0
2021 13.3 9.5 7 0 0
2020 9.0 9.0 5 0 0
2019 7.4 7.4 4 0 0
2018 14.3 12.6 8 0 0
2017 17.0 11.9 10 0 0
2016 11.8 8.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Salinas

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 337 employers in Salinas, 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 0502 Cambridge 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6400-SWY-0005-0005-01656 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 090-00404 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR WEB 31 10.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE SunnySlope Tree Farm, Inc. 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crown Nursery 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE De Jager Farms, Inc. 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Demler Enterprises, LLC 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing 8,854 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing-California 3,255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital 2,197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Healthcare System 2,133 FTE
NAT-TCR Public Hospital District #4 King County (DBA Snoqualmie Valley Hospital) 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR United Brass Manufacturers - Forging Division 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR FirstLight Power - CT 10.9 TCR
NAT-TCR National Water Main Cleaning Company (Rocky Hill Division) 10.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE 1991 - Morris Il Return Center 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE TX 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE USM Store #512 (United) 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unit #0199 65 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.