Grocery stores · California

Marukai Gardena

Gardena, CA · ~194 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Marukai Gardena runs at 295% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Marukai Gardena: 10.0 TCR = 295% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Marukai Gardena safety composite

Marukai Gardena scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Marukai Gardena: 7.9 → 14.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 14.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.31× in 2019

Marukai Gardena's TCR rose 6.4 from 7.9 in 2017 to 14.3 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Gardena, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.0 · 295% of ind

  • DART 13.1 DART
  • RANK #3441/4686
  • PHOTO LMMM HOUSTON #64, LTD
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~194 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LMMM HOUSTON #64, LTD (0.0 TCR gap)

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Marukai Gardena in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Marukai Gardena averages 10.0 TCR (295% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Marukai Gardena TCR series: 2017=7.9 · 2018=7.9 · 2019=14.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Marukai Gardena falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3441 safest of 4686 Grocery stores employers in California.

Marukai Gardena (194 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Marukai Gardena
Marukai Gardena (194 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Marukai Gardena has more employees than the Grocery stores 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 14.3 13.1 25 0 0
2018 7.9 7.9 8 0 0
2017 7.9 4.6 12 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Gardena

30,654 Grocery stores 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 LMMM HOUSTON #64, LTD 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWY-0025-0025-01891 FAC-01891-MORGAN HILL-CA 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rouses Market #37 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-ABS-0029-0028-02514 10.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE GARCIACO FARMING INC 194 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tulelake 194 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sorrento Berry Farms, LLC - Oxnard 194 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenfield Ag Services INC 194 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 Main Office 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Garden City Hospital 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Smith Systems Transportation, Inc. 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Winona PVD Coatings, LLC. 10.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Grantsville Facility 194 FTE
NAT-SIZE DAV National Headquarters 194 FTE
NAT-SIZE Swift Enterprises LLC 194 FTE
NAT-SIZE Freedom Square - SPR 194 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, 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.