Grocery stores · California

Food 4 Less - San Luis Obispo

San Luis Obispo, CA · ~46 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Food 4 Less - San Luis Obispo runs at 266% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Food 4 Less - San Luis Obispo: 9.0 TCR = 266% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Food 4 Less - San Luis Obispo safety composite

Food 4 Less - San Luis Obispo scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−4.5

2016→2023

Food 4 Less - San Luis Obispo injury rate improved

Food 4 Less - San Luis Obispo's TCR fell 4.5 from 7.0 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 15.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.0 · 2017=5.2 · 2018=7.7 · 2019=12.2 · 2020=14.7 · 2021=15.1 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · San Luis Obispo, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 266% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3149/4686
  • PHOTO GIANT FOOD STORES 6565
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GIANT FOOD STORES 6565 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Food 4 Less - San Luis Obispo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Food 4 Less - San Luis Obispo averages 9.0 TCR (266% 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 - San Luis Obispo TCR series: 2016=7 · 2017=5.2 · 2018=7.7 · 2019=12.2 · 2020=14.7 · 2021=15.1 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=2.5 · BLS 3.4

Where Food 4 Less - San Luis Obispo falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #3149 safest of 4686 Grocery stores employers in California.

Food 4 Less - San Luis Obispo (46 employees, TCR 9.0) 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 - San Luis Obispo
Food 4 Less - San Luis Obispo (46 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Food 4 Less - San Luis Obispo 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 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 7.7 2.6 3 0 0
2021 15.1 15.1 6 0 0
2020 14.7 9.8 6 0 0
2019 12.2 7.3 5 0 0
2018 7.7 7.7 3 0 0
2017 5.2 2.6 2 0 0
2016 7.0 4.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · San Luis Obispo

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 177 employers in San Luis Obispo, 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 GIANT FOOD STORES 6565 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 20500002-429 STORE 429 - PALM SPRINGS 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWY-0027-0027-01437 FAC-01437-TACOMA-WA 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR USM Store #927 (MARKET STREET) 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Matteoli Brothers 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE IMR Farms-San Miguel 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE G&G Berry Farms 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pitigliano Farm Services, Inc. 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bella Vista Transitional Care Center 8,119 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Men's Colony - San Luis Obispo 1,599 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Men's Colony 1,482 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 279 946 FTE
NAT-TCR USM Store #927 (MARKET STREET) 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR RK-004-Litchfield ( RK-004 ) 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR M7905 Charlotte Hun 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR SPI - Aberdeen 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Parkway Products, LLC ASH 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE 809 - Atlanta Recycling 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Masters Heating & Cooling, Inc. - Fort Wayne 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oil-Rite Corporation 46 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.