Supermarkets · California

Murphy's Markets Inc.

Arcata, CA · ~163 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Murphy's Markets Inc. runs at 124% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Supermarkets workplace, earning a grade D.

Murphy's Markets Inc.: 4.2 TCR = 124% of Supermarkets BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Murphy's Markets Inc. safety composite

Murphy's Markets Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Murphy's Markets Inc.: 1.8 → 5.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2024

Murphy's Markets Inc.'s TCR rose 3.9 from 1.8 in 2018 to 5.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 124% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #1056/4686
  • PHOTO Lowes Foods #270
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~163 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lowes Foods #270 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Murphy's Markets Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Murphy's Markets Inc. averages 4.2 TCR (124% of the Supermarkets BLS benchmark).

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

Murphy's Markets Inc. TCR series: 2018=1.8 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=5.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Murphy's Markets Inc. falls in its industry

30,654 Supermarkets establishments

Safer than 57% 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 #1056 safest of 4686 Supermarkets employers in California.

Murphy's Markets Inc. (163 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 Murphy's Markets Inc.
Murphy's Markets Inc. (163 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Murphy's Markets Inc. has more employees than the Supermarkets median and a lower 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
2024 5.7 4.1 7 0 0
2023 5.5 4.7 7 0 0
2022 3.8 3.1 5 0 0
2018 1.8 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Arcata

30,654 Supermarkets employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 41 employers in Arcata, 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 Lowes Foods #270 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 1093 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rouses Market #79 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grocery Outlet of Madera 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Andersen & Sons Shelling 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE Legacy 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hughson Nut, Inc - Livingston Facility 163 FTE
STATE-SIZE CORONADO LABOR CONTRACTING, Inc. 163 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 52 1,571 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kokatat, Inc. 131 FTE
CITY-NEAR North Coast Co-op Arcata 124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Office 118 FTE
NAT-TCR Marriott City Center 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Public Works 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Ottawa Fwd WH 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR BF Facility 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Larsen Beverage Corporation - Pleasant View 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colors & Effects USA LLC - Peekskill 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE Birrell Bottling Company - Springville 163 FTE
NAT-SIZE Venus Construction Company 163 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, 2018. 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.