Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing · California

Gardena Distribution Center

Gardena, CA · ~25 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gardena Distribution Center runs at 292% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Gardena Distribution Center: 9.6 TCR = 292% of Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gardena Distribution Center safety composite

Gardena Distribution Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Gardena Distribution Center: 7.6 → 13.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 14.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.45× in 2024

Gardena Distribution Center's TCR rose 6.3 from 7.6 in 2017 to 13.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 14.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311513 · Gardena, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 292% of ind

  • DART 13.9 DART
  • RANK #33/36
  • PHOTO Yancey's Fancy/Main …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Yancey's Fancy/Main Road Location (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gardena Distribution Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gardena Distribution Center averages 9.6 TCR (292% of the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Gardena Distribution Center TCR series: 2017=7.6 · 2018=14.2 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=13.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Gardena Distribution Center falls in its industry

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 36 Cheese (except cottage cheese) employers in California.

Gardena Distribution Center (25 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Gardena Distribution Center
Gardena Distribution Center (25 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Gardena Distribution Center has fewer employees than the Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufactu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 13.9 13.9 1 0 0
2023 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2018 14.2 0.0 3 0 0
2017 7.6 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311513 · CA · Gardena

377 Cheese (except cottage cheese) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 223 employers in Gardena, 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 Yancey's Fancy/Main Road Location 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sartori Whey Converting 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saputo Cheese Almena 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cypress Grove Cheese 9.7 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 California Department of Transportation Facility 602 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-030 909 FTE
CITY-NEAR GARDENA HUB (CAGAR) 809 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAGAR - GARDENA HUB 794 FTE
NAT-TCR At Home Stores #120 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Johnson City 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fredericksburg 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR US Concrete Products Corporation 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE At Home Stores #181 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE 432 Perry Street 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Towing Vestavia Hills 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE At Home Stores #158 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, 2018, 2017. 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.