Automobile dealers, new only or new and used · California

North County Kia

Escondido, CA · ~56 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

North County Kia runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Automobile dealers, new only or new and used workplace, earning a grade B.

North County Kia: 2.4 TCR = 70% of Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

North County Kia safety composite

North County Kia scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

−5.5

2021→2024

North County Kia injury rate improved

North County Kia's TCR fell 5.5 from 7.5 in 2021 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 7.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=7.5 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=2.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Escondido, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 70% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #69/301
  • PHOTO SAH
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SAH (0.0 TCR gap)

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North County Kia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows North County Kia averages 2.4 TCR (70% of the Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS benchmark).

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

North County Kia TCR series: 2021=7.5 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=2 · BLS 3.4

Where North County Kia falls in its industry

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only o establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #69 safest of 301 Automobile dealers, new only o employers in California.

North County Kia (56 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate North County Kia
North County Kia (56 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

North County Kia has fewer employees than the Automobile dealers, new only or new and median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 2.0 2.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 7.5 7.5 1 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · CA · Escondido

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only or new and used employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 244 employers in Escondido, 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 SAH 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leesburg Hyundai 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wallace International Trucks Inc 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fury Motors, Inc 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wallace Brothers 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Sun Farms, Inc 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1624 Poole Blvd., Yuba City, CA 95993 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Copperhill 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA Escondido 4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palomar Medical Center Escondido 3,031 FTE
CITY-NEAR Escondido CA 1,546 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bergelectric Corp. CA 1,279 FTE
NAT-TCR LeafGuard of DC 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cfp Tx Ft Worth 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Martin Automatic Inc 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR AVS Illinois 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Coral Reef Management 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kuhn Employment Opportunities, Inc 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bob Bernhard & Associates Mechanical 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - HDA1 56 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. 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.