Freight forwarding · California

Panalpina Los Angeles

Torrance, CA · ~111 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Panalpina Los Angeles runs at 53% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Freight forwarding workplace, earning a grade B.

Panalpina Los Angeles: 2.4 TCR = 53% of Freight forwarding BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Panalpina Los Angeles safety composite

Panalpina Los Angeles scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 30%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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

Panalpina Los Angeles: 2.4 → 10000.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 10000.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2092.05× in 2019

Panalpina Los Angeles's TCR rose 9997.6 from 2.4 in 2018 to 10000.0 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 2092.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488510 · Torrance, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 53% of ind

  • DART 5000.0 DART
  • RANK #27/57
  • PHOTO Ruan Transport Corpo…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ruan Transport Corporation T-006 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Panalpina Los Angeles in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Panalpina Los Angeles averages 2.4 TCR (53% of the Freight forwarding BLS benchmark).

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

Panalpina Los Angeles TCR series: 2018=2.4 · 2019=10000 · BLS 4.5

Where Panalpina Los Angeles falls in its industry

358 Freight forwarding establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 57 Freight forwarding employers in California.

Panalpina Los Angeles (111 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.2 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 Panalpina Los Angeles
Panalpina Los Angeles (111 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Panalpina Los Angeles has more employees than the Freight forwarding median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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 10000.0 5000.0 2 0 0
2018 2.4 2.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488510 · CA · Torrance

358 Freight forwarding employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 332 employers in Torrance, 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 Ruan Transport Corporation T-006 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chicago Center 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Freight Rite, Inc. - Toledo 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ruan Transport Corporation T-668 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE CNTRL 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Peterson Ranch 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE KLEEN HARVEST 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Redding Cement 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harbor-UCLA Medical Center 4,144 FTE
CITY-NEAR Torrance Memorial Medical Center 3,808 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles 3,229 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 494 2,621 FTE
NAT-TCR Honeywell NY09 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cabot Marshall Plant 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Maine Fire Protection Systems 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Duplicator Sales & Service, Inc. Louisville 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chicago Protective Apparel 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arlingtion Distribution Center 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Feld Entertainment - MUL 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Struktol Company of America, LLC 111 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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