Retail Store · California

Ross store 159

Santa Barbara, CA · ~60 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ross store 159 runs at 241% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Ross store 159: 8.2 TCR = 241% of Retail Store BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ross store 159 safety composite

Ross store 159 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Ross store 159: 5.9 → 11.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.41× in 2020

Ross store 159's TCR rose 5.6 from 5.9 in 2017 to 11.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Santa Barbara, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 241% of ind

  • DART 11.6 DART
  • RANK #622/850
  • PHOTO 0301 - Rancho Cucamo…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0301 - Rancho Cucamonga (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ross store 159 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ross store 159 averages 8.2 TCR (241% of the Retail Store BLS benchmark).

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

Ross store 159 TCR series: 2017=5.9 · 2018=8.8 · 2019=6.4 · 2020=11.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Ross store 159 falls in its industry

4,991 Retail Store establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #622 safest of 850 Retail Store employers in California.

Ross store 159 (60 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ross store 159
Ross store 159 (60 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Ross store 159 has fewer employees than the Retail Store median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2020 11.6 11.6 3 0 0
2019 6.4 6.4 2 0 0
2018 8.8 5.9 3 0 0
2017 5.9 5.9 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · CA · Santa Barbara

4,991 Retail Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 173 employers in Santa Barbara, 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 0301 - Rancho Cucamonga 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0958 - Bowling Green 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 2161 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shopko Hometown #762 (Thermopolis, WY) 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE North Coast Vineyards 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming Cooperative, Inc | Grapes Delano 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paiva Farm Management 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rocket Farms Herbs Inc Thermal 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Santa Barbara 10,779 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital 3,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Santa Barbara 1,587 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Green Santa Barbara 674 FTE
NAT-TCR Tmx2033 - Austin 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Lehigh Valley Hospital - Hazleton 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Schumacher Electric Corporation - Dallas 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Viking Pools - FL 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ross store 134 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 305 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 239 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 498 60 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.