Tortilla chips manufacturing · California

La Colonial Tortilla Products, Inc.

Monterey Park, CA · ~33 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
4.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

La Colonial Tortilla Products, Inc. runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Tortilla chips manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

La Colonial Tortilla Products, Inc.: 5.3 TCR = 130% of Tortilla chips manufacturing BLS 4.1 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

La Colonial Tortilla Products, Inc. safety composite

La Colonial Tortilla Products, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 28%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.3

2019→2024

La Colonial Tortilla Products, Inc. injury rate improved

La Colonial Tortilla Products, Inc.'s TCR fell 6.3 from 6.3 in 2019 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.3 · 2020=10.4 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=8.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311919 · Monterey Park, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 130% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #8/15
  • PHOTO GF Birmingham Manufa…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GF Birmingham Manufacturing (0.0 TCR gap)

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La Colonial Tortilla Products, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows La Colonial Tortilla Products, Inc. averages 5.3 TCR (130% of the Tortilla chips manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

La Colonial Tortilla Products, Inc. TCR series: 2019=6.3 · 2020=10.4 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=8.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 4.1

Where La Colonial Tortilla Products, Inc. falls in its industry

253 Tortilla chips manufacturing establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 15 Tortilla chips manufacturing employers in California.

La Colonial Tortilla Products, Inc. (33 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate La Colonial Tortilla Products, Inc.
La Colonial Tortilla Products, Inc. (33 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 160 employees and a TCR of 3.4

La Colonial Tortilla Products, Inc. has fewer employees than the Tortilla chips manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 8.7 2.9 3 0 0
2022 2.2 2.2 1 0 0
2021 4.4 4.4 1 1 0
2020 10.4 10.4 4 1 0
2019 6.3 4.2 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311919 · CA · Monterey Park

253 Tortilla chips manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 38 employers in Monterey Park, 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 GF Birmingham Manufacturing 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wise Foods, Inc. - Moonachie, NJ 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rudolph Foods Dallas 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR YORK PLANT 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tutti Frutti Farms 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE EL CENTRO 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE BULLSEYE FARMS 18 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE River Vista Farms LLC 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-035 912 FTE
CITY-NEAR MBM-2 Los Angeles 796 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sheriff Administrative Headquarters 542 FTE
CITY-NEAR Monterey Park - Bld: 0701 - 15 491 FTE
NAT-TCR The Westin Seattle 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Blue Sky Pest Control 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Norcen Industries Inc 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1026 - Lansing 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lions Volunteer Blind Industries - 2 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Letty Owings Center 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diaco Food Service 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newtech Installation USA Inc. 33 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.