General stores · California

Location 3 Lemon Grove

Lemon Grove, CA · ~58 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Location 3 Lemon Grove runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Location 3 Lemon Grove: 5.2 TCR = 151% of General stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Location 3 Lemon Grove safety composite

Location 3 Lemon Grove scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Location 3 Lemon Grove: 0.0 → 12.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 12.3 TCR · DART/TCR 2.38× in 2021

Location 3 Lemon Grove's TCR rose 12.3 from 0.0 in 2017 to 12.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 2.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452990 · Lemon Grove, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.2 · 151% of ind

  • DART 12.3 DART
  • RANK #122/255
  • PHOTO Big Lots Store #1076…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Big Lots Store #1076 SHAWNEE, OK (0.0 TCR gap)

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Location 3 Lemon Grove in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Location 3 Lemon Grove averages 5.2 TCR (151% of the General stores BLS benchmark).

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

Location 3 Lemon Grove TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=10.6 · 2020=2.8 · 2021=12.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Location 3 Lemon Grove falls in its industry

2,120 General stores establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #122 safest of 255 General stores employers in California.

Location 3 Lemon Grove (58 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 020406080100 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Location 3 Lemon Grove
Location 3 Lemon Grove (58 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 23 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Location 3 Lemon Grove has more employees than the General stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2021 12.3 12.3 1 3 0
2020 2.8 2.8 1 0 0
2019 10.6 8.5 5 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 1 1 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452990 · CA · Lemon Grove

2,120 General stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 33 employers in Lemon Grove, 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 Big Lots Store #1076 SHAWNEE, OK 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big Lots Store #5356 Columbus, OH 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2551 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 32 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE S & R Farm Labor Contractor 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE RANCHO DEL MAR, INC. 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laurel Labor Services 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Juan Briones 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aztec Landscaping, Inc. 271 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bella Vista Health Center 269 FTE
CITY-NEAR EDCO Disposal 229 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lemon Grove Care and Rehabilitation 206 FTE
NAT-TCR Drillers F &B LLC 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lafayette Hotel Associates, LLC 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Office 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Choctaw Transportation Company 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Houston Specialty Beverages 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kaiser Garage Doors & Gates 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE SFS Group - Dennis Drive 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn Tyler 58 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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