Lumber retailing yards · California

Payless Building Supply Chico

Chico, CA · ~35 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Payless Building Supply Chico runs at 506% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Lumber retailing yards workplace, earning a grade F.

Payless Building Supply Chico: 17.2 TCR = 506% of Lumber retailing yards BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Payless Building Supply Chico safety composite

Payless Building Supply Chico scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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 17.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

−6.2

2019→2021

Payless Building Supply Chico injury rate improved

Payless Building Supply Chico's TCR fell 6.2 from 22.0 in 2019 to 15.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 22.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=22.0 · 2020=13.8 · 2021=15.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · Chico, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.2 · 506% of ind

  • DART 9.5 DART
  • RANK #157/159
  • PHOTO 023 Albany
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 023 Albany (0.0 TCR gap)

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Payless Building Supply Chico in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Payless Building Supply Chico averages 17.2 TCR (506% of the Lumber retailing yards BLS benchmark).

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

Payless Building Supply Chico TCR series: 2019=22 · 2020=13.8 · 2021=15.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Payless Building Supply Chico falls in its industry

1,643 Lumber retailing yards establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #157 safest of 159 Lumber retailing yards employers in California.

Payless Building Supply Chico (35 employees, TCR 17.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Payless Building Supply Chico
Payless Building Supply Chico (35 employees, TCR 17.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Payless Building Supply Chico has more employees than the Lumber retailing yards median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2021 15.8 9.5 5 0 0
2020 13.8 8.3 5 0 0
2019 22.0 14.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · CA · Chico

1,643 Lumber retailing yards employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 189 employers in Chico, 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 023 Albany 17.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wallboard - Braintree 17.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR McCoys Building Supply-Laurel 17.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Albuquerque Equipment & Roofing Supplies, Inc. 17.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE CONSTRUCTION FABRICATION/CARPENTRY/PAINTING/ELECTRIC/PIPE 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meek Ranches LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dresick Farms, Inc. - Farm 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wolfsen Inc 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-11 4,124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Enloe Medical Center Employees 3,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 72 2,394 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 521 2,370 FTE
NAT-TCR Stutzman Brothers Property Maintenance, Inc. 17.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Reliant World Wide Plastics 17.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Bliss Environmental Services, Inc. 17.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The Palazzo 17.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE S09085 - Nashville RRC River Hills 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tcw, Inc Memphis 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Twin Falls Med 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Missoula Store 35 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.