Convenience food stores · California

Gelson's Markets #25

Rancho Mission Viejo, CA · ~72 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gelson's Markets #25 runs at 290% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Convenience food stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Gelson's Markets #25: 9.8 TCR = 290% of Convenience food stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gelson's Markets #25 safety composite

Gelson's Markets #25 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Gelson's Markets #25: 8.9 → 61.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 61.6 TCR · DART/TCR 6.26× in 2022

Gelson's Markets #25's TCR rose 52.8 from 8.9 in 2017 to 61.6 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 6.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445120 · Rancho Mission Viejo, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.8 · 290% of ind

  • DART 61.6 DART
  • RANK #18/39
  • PHOTO 0000000066 QUICKCHEK…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~72 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0000000066 QUICKCHEK FOOD STORES (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gelson's Markets #25 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gelson's Markets #25 averages 9.8 TCR (290% of the Convenience food stores BLS benchmark).

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

Gelson's Markets #25 TCR series: 2017=8.9 · 2018=15.3 · 2019=8.8 · 2020=6.5 · 2022=61.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Gelson's Markets #25 falls in its industry

1,323 Convenience food stores establishments

Safer than 29% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 39 Convenience food stores employers in California.

Gelson's Markets #25 (72 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Gelson's Markets #25
Gelson's Markets #25 (72 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 32 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Gelson's Markets #25 has more employees than the Convenience food stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2022 61.6 61.6 5 32 0
2020 6.5 6.5 1 4 0
2019 8.8 7.5 7 0 0
2018 15.3 7.0 13 0 0
2017 8.9 3.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445120 · CA · Rancho Mission Viejo

1,323 Convenience food stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 4 employers in Rancho Mission Viejo, 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 0000000066 QUICKCHEK FOOD STORES 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR WAWA SITE - 676 9.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gelson's Markets #18 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WAWA SITE - 282 9.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Monterey Pacific, LLC 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arts Ranch 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mellano & Company - Los Angeles Wholesale House 72 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greg Hooker dba Diamond H Dairy 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rancho Mission Viejo - Store 025 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR JES Engineering Contractors 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR SCG Electric, Inc 24 FTE
NAT-TCR Specs #162 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0017-0016-00341 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 237056-Pasadena Po 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 010120-Albertville Po 9.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 30403 Capstone - Dollar General Bessemer Al 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE HG521 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thomasville Lumber Company, Inc. 72 FTE
NAT-SIZE Matheny Motors - Mineral Wells 72 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.