Grocery Retail · California

NorthState - 38

Auburn, CA · ~54 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NorthState - 38 runs at 170% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery Retail workplace, earning a grade D.

NorthState - 38: 5.8 TCR = 170% of Grocery Retail BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NorthState - 38 safety composite

NorthState - 38 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

−3.7

2017→2023

NorthState - 38 injury rate improved

NorthState - 38's TCR fell 3.7 from 8.9 in 2017 to 5.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 13.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.9 · 2018=13.3 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=4.5 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=5.1 · 2023=5.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Auburn, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 170% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #1828/4686
  • PHOTO Lowes Foods #185
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lowes Foods #185 (0.0 TCR gap)

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NorthState - 38 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NorthState - 38 averages 5.8 TCR (170% of the Grocery Retail BLS benchmark).

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

NorthState - 38 TCR series: 2017=8.9 · 2018=13.3 · 2019=0 · 2020=4.5 · 2021=3.5 · 2022=5.1 · 2023=5.2 · BLS 3.4

Where NorthState - 38 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Retail establishments

Safer than 36% 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 #1828 safest of 4686 Grocery Retail employers in California.

NorthState - 38 (54 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 NorthState - 38
NorthState - 38 (54 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

NorthState - 38 has fewer employees than the Grocery Retail 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
2023 5.2 5.2 3 0 0
2022 5.1 5.1 3 0 0
2021 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2020 4.5 4.5 2 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 13.3 13.3 3 0 0
2017 8.9 8.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Auburn

30,654 Grocery Retail employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 96 employers in Auburn, 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 #185 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR FOOD GIANT 403 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10466 Virginia Beach 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 10105 Torrance 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sea Mist Farms 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Harold E. Robben, Jr. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jose Maria Perez 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pauma Valley 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 37 2,161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Valley Hospitals (30095) 762 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health and Human Services 743 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Auburn Faith Hospital (110-4001) 676 FTE
NAT-TCR Price Chopper #4 - PC04 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Inman Healthcare 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Youngstown Area Jewish Federation 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Systems Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tousley Motorsports Inc 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE L3 Technologies - Pope 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Two Brothers Brewing Company 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of New London 54 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.