Rolls and buns (including frozen) made in commercial bakeries · California

King's Hawaiian Bakery West Inc

Name: King's Hawaiian Bakery West Inc Workplace Safety Data
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Torrance, CA · ~448 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 2.9
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

King's Hawaiian Bakery West Inc runs at 86% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Rolls and buns (including frozen) made in commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade C.

King's Hawaiian Bakery West Inc: 2.9 TCR = 86% of Rolls and buns (including frozen) made in commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

King's Hawaiian Bakery West Inc safety composite

King's Hawaiian Bakery West Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 2.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

King's Hawaiian Bakery West Inc: 2.7 → 3.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 3.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.88× in 2021

King's Hawaiian Bakery West Inc's TCR rose 0.4 from 2.7 in 2017 to 3.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Torrance, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.9 · 86% of ind

DART 2.5 DART
RANK #39/139
PHOTO Little Brothers Bake…
BOOK 5y book
INJ 64 inj
SIZE ~448 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Little Brothers Bakery, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows King's Hawaiian Bakery West Inc averages 2.9 TCR (86% of the Rolls and buns (including frozen) made in commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

King's Hawaiian Bakery West Inc TCR series: 2017=2.7 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=3.8 · 2021=3.1 · BLS 3.3

Where King's Hawaiian Bakery West Inc falls in its industry

1,014 Rolls and buns (including froz establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 139 Rolls and buns (including froz employers in California.

King's Hawaiian Bakery West Inc (448 employees, TCR 2.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

King's Hawaiian Bakery West Inc has more employees than the Rolls and buns (including frozen) made i median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2021	3.1	2.5	15
2020	3.8	3.8	17
2019	1.7	1.4	7
2018	2.9	2.5	13
2017	2.7	2.3	12

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · CA · Torrance

1,014 Rolls and buns (including frozen) made in commercial bakeries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 332 employers in Torrance, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Little Brothers Bakery, LLC	GARDENA, CA	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	337 Troy MI	TROY, MI	2.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Fargo Depot	FARGO, ND	2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Bon Breads Baking Company Inc.	LAS VEGAS, NV	2.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Pearls Farm Labor Inc.	NAPA	448 FTE
STATE-SIZE	WM 1815	FRESNO	448 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Marina Landscape Inc	ORANGE	448 FTE
STATE-SIZE	College Hospital Cerritos	CERRITOS	448 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Harbor-UCLA Medical Center	Torrance	4,144 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Torrance Memorial Medical Center	Torrance	3,808 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Los Angeles	Torrance	3,229 FTE
CITY-NEAR	California Department of Transportation Facility 494	Torrance	2,621 FTE
NAT-TCR	Ruan Transport Corporation T-667	Yuma, AZ	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	FRT - Pharr	Pharr, TX	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Mercy Hospital & Medical Ctr	Chicago, IL	2.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Joppa Power Station	Joppa, IL	2.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	BPI-MA	Danvers, MA	448 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Eastern Shipbuilding Allanton	Panama City, FL	448 FTE
NAT-SIZE	CAP Scottsdale, AZ	Scottsdale, AZ	448 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Pacific Seafood Clackamas	Clackamas, OR	448 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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