Grocery stores · California

Grocery Outlet Santa Cruz

Santa Cruz, CA · ~58 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
28.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Grocery Outlet Santa Cruz runs at 846% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Grocery Outlet Santa Cruz: 28.8 TCR = 846% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Grocery Outlet Santa Cruz safety composite

Grocery Outlet Santa Cruz scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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 28.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Grocery Outlet Santa Cruz: 26.5 → 28.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 31.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.26× in 2024

Grocery Outlet Santa Cruz's TCR rose 1.6 from 26.5 in 2022 to 28.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 31.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Santa Cruz, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 28.8 · 846% of ind

  • DART 7.5 DART
  • RANK #4683/4686
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0519 Po…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 43 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0519 Portland (0.1 TCR gap)

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Grocery Outlet Santa Cruz in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Grocery Outlet Santa Cruz averages 28.8 TCR (846% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Grocery Outlet Santa Cruz TCR series: 2022=26.5 · 2023=31.7 · 2024=28.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Grocery Outlet Santa Cruz falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 0% 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 #4683 safest of 4686 Grocery stores employers in California.

Grocery Outlet Santa Cruz (58 employees, TCR 28.8) 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 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Grocery Outlet Santa Cruz
Grocery Outlet Santa Cruz (58 employees, TCR 28.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Grocery Outlet Santa Cruz 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
2024 28.1 7.5 15 0 0
2023 31.7 13.0 16 1 0
2022 26.5 16.3 12 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Santa Cruz

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 133 employers in Santa Cruz, 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 0519 Portland 28.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trader Joe's 0122 Studio City 28.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR DWT 40 28.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saver Group,Inc dba Shelbyville Save-A-Lot 28.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE S & R Farm Labor Contractor 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE RANCHO DEL MAR, INC. 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laurel Labor Services 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Juan Briones 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Santa Cruz 8,081 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030253 1,732 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dignity Health Dominican Hospital 1,652 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030253-253001 DOMINICAN HOSPITAL SANTA CRUZ 1,464 FTE
NAT-TCR CentraCare - Long Prairie Meadow Place 28.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Western Foundries, Inc. 28.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Solid-Employees LLC 28.7 TCR
NAT-TCR JAWS Logistics LLC 28.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Shop- Complete General Construction Company 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kelderman Manufacturing 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Great Plains Gas Compression Holdings, LLC 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fishers 58 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.