Bakeries with baking from flour on the premises, retailing not for immediate consumption · California

Le Chef Bakery

Name: Le Chef Bakery Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Montebello, CA · ~324 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 7.3
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Le Chef Bakery runs at 222% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Bakeries with baking from flour on the premises, retailing not for immediate consumption workplace, earning a grade F.

Le Chef Bakery: 7.3 TCR = 222% of Bakeries with baking from flour on the premises, retailing not for immediate consumption BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Le Chef Bakery safety composite

Le Chef Bakery scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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).

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers
DART rate: D 3.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

−0.4

2018→2019

Le Chef Bakery injury rate improved

Le Chef Bakery's TCR fell 0.4 from 7.5 in 2018 to 7.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.5 · 2019=7.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311811 · Montebello, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 222% of ind

DART 3.1 DART
RANK #13/17
PHOTO Tortilla King LLC
BOOK 2y book
INJ 45 inj
SIZE ~324 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tortilla King LLC (0.2 TCR gap)

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Bernice's Bake

7.6
Porto's Bakery

7.6
Tortilla King

7.5
This site

7.3
Ever Better Ea

7.1

What this shows Le Chef Bakery averages 7.3 TCR (222% of the Bakeries with baking from flour on the premises, retailing not for immediate consumption BLS benchmark).

Le Chef Bakery TCR series: 2018=7.5 · 2019=7.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Le Chef Bakery falls in its industry

80 Bakeries with baking from flou establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 17 Bakeries with baking from flou employers in California.

Le Chef Bakery (324 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Le Chef Bakery has more employees than the Bakeries with baking from flour on the p median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2019	7.1	3.1	23	0	0
2018	7.5	4.1	22	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311811 · CA · Montebello

80 Bakeries with baking from flour on the premises, retailing not for immediate consumption employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 86 employers in Montebello, 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	Tortilla King LLC	MOUNDRIDGE, KS	7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ever Better Eating Inc	PITTSFIELD, NH	7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Bernice's Bakery	MISSOULA, MT	7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Porto's Bakery West Covina, Inc	WEST COVINA, CA	7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Sierra Gold Nurseries, Inc	YUBA CITY	324 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Old Stage	SALINAS	324 FTE
STATE-SIZE	NorthEast C/O and DistColl - Bld: 6232 - 01	ESCONDIDO	324 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Tarlton and Son Inc.	FRESNO	324 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Beverly Hospital	Montebello	878 FTE
CITY-NEAR	City of Montebello	Montebello	513 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Rio Hondo Subacute and Nursing Center	Montebello	489 FTE
CITY-NEAR	MONTEBELLO CA PLANT	Montebello	344 FTE
NAT-TCR	901 W. Leeds Ave	Absecon, NJ	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	Select Sires Inc	Plain City, OH	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	G&G Steel, Inc. - Cordova, Alabama	Cordova, AL	7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR	DFNC - WOOD - Woodbury (Dean)	Woodbury, MN	7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Podnar Plastics, Inc.	Kent, OH	324 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Paradigm Precision 3651 SE Commerce Ave Stuart FL	Stuart, FL	324 FTE
NAT-SIZE	8935 Lv Stucco	Las Vegas, NV	324 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Evergreen and Wellspring Retirement and Health Care	Cincinnati, OH	324 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.