Nuts, chocolate covered, made from purchased chocolate · California

Hawaiian Host Candies of L.A., Inc.

Gardena, CA · ~102 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.6
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hawaiian Host Candies of L.A., Inc. runs at 252% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Nuts, chocolate covered, made from purchased chocolate workplace, earning a grade F.

Hawaiian Host Candies of L.A., Inc.: 10.6 TCR = 252% of Nuts, chocolate covered, made from purchased chocolate BLS 4.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hawaiian Host Candies of L.A., Inc. safety composite

Hawaiian Host Candies of L.A., Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Hawaiian Host Candies of L.A., Inc.: 9.9 → 11.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.99× in 2017

Hawaiian Host Candies of L.A., Inc.'s TCR rose 1.5 from 9.9 in 2016 to 11.3 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311352 · Gardena, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.6 · 252% of ind

  • DART 10.4 DART
  • RANK #7/8
  • PHOTO Pecan Deluxe Candy C…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~102 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pecan Deluxe Candy Company (0.3 TCR gap)

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Hawaiian Host Candies of L.A., Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hawaiian Host Candies of L.A., Inc. averages 10.6 TCR (252% of the Nuts, chocolate covered, made from purchased chocolate BLS benchmark).

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

Hawaiian Host Candies of L.A., Inc. TCR series: 2016=9.9 · 2017=11.3 · BLS 4.2

Where Hawaiian Host Candies of L.A., Inc. falls in its industry

86 Nuts, chocolate covered, made establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 8 Nuts, chocolate covered, made employers in California.

Hawaiian Host Candies of L.A., Inc. (102 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 3.7 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Hawaiian Host Candies of L.A., Inc.
Hawaiian Host Candies of L.A., Inc. (102 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 122 employees and a TCR of 3.7

Hawaiian Host Candies of L.A., Inc. has fewer employees than the Nuts, chocolate covered, made from purch median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.7. 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
2017 11.3 10.4 13 0 0
2016 9.9 8.5 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311352 · CA · Gardena

86 Nuts, chocolate covered, made from purchased chocolate 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 Pecan Deluxe Candy Company 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Enstrom Candies Inc 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wolfgang Operations LLC - LGV 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3241_6231 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE REFCO FARMS LLC 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Pinery LLC 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Del Rey Packing Co 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE ONM 102 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 Midland (Txmid) 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Longwood Center (Fllon) 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR KY-01 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Oak Charlotte 10.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE LKC 2nd Avenue 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE RCR Star Oregon, Inc. 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prince Minerals LLC- Leesburg 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cheyenne (Wyche) 102 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: 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.