Snack and Nonalcoholic Beverage Bars · California

Forest Ave. (Palo Alto)

Palo Alto, CA · ~25 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Forest Ave. (Palo Alto) runs at 258% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Snack and Nonalcoholic Beverage Bars workplace, earning a grade F.

Forest Ave. (Palo Alto): 7.7 TCR = 258% of Snack and Nonalcoholic Beverage Bars BLS 3.0 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Forest Ave. (Palo Alto) safety composite

Forest Ave. (Palo Alto) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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 7.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

−1.1

2022→2024

Forest Ave. (Palo Alto) injury rate improved

Forest Ave. (Palo Alto)'s TCR fell 1.1 from 8.3 in 2022 to 7.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 8.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.93× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=8.3 · 2023=7.6 · 2024=7.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722515 · Palo Alto, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 258% of ind

  • DART 7.2 DART
  • RANK #27/44
  • PHOTO 626
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 626 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Forest Ave. (Palo Alto) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Forest Ave. (Palo Alto) averages 7.7 TCR (258% of the Snack and Nonalcoholic Beverage Bars BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Forest Ave. (Palo Alto) TCR series: 2022=8.3 · 2023=7.6 · 2024=7.2 · BLS 3.0

Where Forest Ave. (Palo Alto) falls in its industry

245 Snack and Nonalcoholic Beverag establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 44 Snack and Nonalcoholic Beverag employers in California.

Forest Ave. (Palo Alto) (25 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Forest Ave. (Palo Alto)
Forest Ave. (Palo Alto) (25 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 34 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Forest Ave. (Palo Alto) has fewer employees than the Snack and Nonalcoholic Beverage Bars median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2024 7.2 7.2 1 0 0
2023 7.6 7.6 1 0 0
2022 8.3 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722515 · CA · Palo Alto

245 Snack and Nonalcoholic Beverage Bars employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 116 employers in Palo Alto, 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 626 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store #1234 - Penn & 79th 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 214 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 224 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Conservation Farms Ranches 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE GM Ag Services, Inc. 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farm Shop 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dougherty Brothers 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stanford Health Care 16,371 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-CA-Palo Alto-Deer Creek-Office 1,878 FTE
CITY-NEAR Varian, Palo Alto 1,396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-10110) 1,227 FTE
NAT-TCR Wirerope Works Inc. 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR North Star Elementary 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Flash Delivery LLC 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Henry Ford Hospital 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mactac Kansas City 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Human Performance Institute Orlando 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gulf Stream Marine - Port Lake Charles 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hyundai of Mankato 25 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. 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.