Linen supply services · California

LA South

Gardena, CA · ~133 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

LA South runs at 392% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Linen supply services workplace, earning a grade F.

LA South: 8.2 TCR = 392% of Linen supply services BLS 2.1 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

LA South safety composite

LA South scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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%).

LA South held a steady TCR band

LA South's TCR held near 0.1 from 8.8 in 2016 to 8.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 15.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.8 · 2018=11.4 · 2019=1.2 · 2021=4.7 · 2022=7.8 · 2023=15.0 · 2024=8.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 812331 · Gardena, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 392% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #36/40
  • PHOTO Dempsey Uniform and …
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 77 inj
  • SIZE ~133 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dempsey Uniform and Linen Supply Inc Baltimore (0.1 TCR gap)

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LA South in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows LA South averages 8.2 TCR (392% of the Linen supply services BLS benchmark).

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

LA South TCR series: 2016=8.8 · 2018=11.4 · 2019=1.2 · 2021=4.7 · 2022=7.8 · 2023=15 · 2024=8.9 · BLS 2.1

Where LA South falls in its industry

334 Linen supply services establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 40 Linen supply services employers in California.

LA South (133 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 LA South
LA South (133 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 5.3

LA South has more employees than the Linen supply services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 8.9 8.3 15 0 0
2023 15.0 13.9 26 0 0
2022 7.8 6.6 13 0 0
2021 4.7 2.0 7 0 0
2019 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2018 11.4 10.1 9 0 0
2016 8.8 4.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

812331 · CA · Gardena

334 Linen supply services 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 Dempsey Uniform and Linen Supply Inc Baltimore 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Linen and Uniform Services 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CLS - Livonia 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Linen & Uniform Service 8.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE RNC NUNEZ LABOR CONTRACTING 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE CALINC SERVICES, INC. 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE LADWP 13101 SEPULVEDA 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Coast Framing, Inc. 133 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 Bay Shore 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Lumber and Millwork 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Trinity Village Inc 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Golden Age Inman 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE 3045 Cash Wise West Fargo 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3015 Cash Wise Moorhead 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franklin Industries Co. 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eden Prairie MN 133 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, 2019, 2018, 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.