Employer · California

HQ

Vernon, CA · ~380 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

HQ runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade A.

HQ: 1.1 TCR = 32% of industry BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HQ safety composite

HQ scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 41%), 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

HQ: 0.9 → 1.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 1.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2023

HQ's TCR rose 0.4 from 0.9 in 2021 to 1.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 448140 · Vernon, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 32% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #6/80
  • PHOTO 434 AUSTIN, TX
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~380 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 434 AUSTIN, TX (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · California employers → · Look up another →

HQ in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HQ averages 1.1 TCR (32% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

HQ TCR series: 2021=0.9 · 2023=1.3 · BLS 3.4

Where HQ falls in its industry

765 industry establishments

Safer than 94% 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 #6 safest of 80 industry employers in California.

HQ (380 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 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 0100200300400 024681012 Average employees Total Case Rate HQ
HQ (380 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 3.7

HQ has more employees than the industry median and a lower 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
2023 1.3 1.0 5 0 0
2021 0.9 0.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

448140 · CA · Vernon

765 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 146 employers in Vernon, 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 434 AUSTIN, TX 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paramus NJ Store 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 568 PALMDALE, CA 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Primark Brooklyn 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Packing Shed 380 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.A.C. Ag Services, Inc 380 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vanir Construction Management 380 FTE
STATE-SIZE BENTLEY Mills 380 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods, Inc. - Vernon, CA 1,633 FTE
CITY-NEAR GRANDE VISTA (CAGVS) 1,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAGVS - GRANDE VISTA 1,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods - Vernon 984 FTE
NAT-TCR Mkg of West Main Street 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Food Outlet 450 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #2456 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #0120 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE MRVLNCBN 380 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anthony Wade, Inc., dba Stephen Wade Auto Center 380 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shady Grove Rail Yard 380 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chicago 380 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: 2023, 2021. 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.