Retail Store · California

Ross store 228

San Luis Obispo, CA · ~32 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ross store 228 runs at 237% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Retail Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Ross store 228: 8.1 TCR = 237% of Retail Store BLS 3.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ross store 228 safety composite

Ross store 228 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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 228: 5.5 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 13.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.99× in 2020

Ross store 228's TCR rose 2.5 from 5.5 in 2017 to 8.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 13.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · San Luis Obispo, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 237% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #616/850
  • PHOTO 0607 - Olympia
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0607 - Olympia (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ross store 228 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ross store 228 averages 8.1 TCR (237% 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 228 TCR series: 2017=5.5 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=13 · 2020=8 · BLS 3.4

Where Ross store 228 falls in its industry

4,991 Retail Store establishments

Safer than 17% 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 #616 safest of 850 Retail Store employers in California.

Ross store 228 (32 employees, TCR 8.1) 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 228
Ross store 228 (32 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Ross store 228 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 8.0 8.0 1 0 0
2019 13.0 13.0 2 0 0
2018 5.7 5.7 1 0 0
2017 5.5 5.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · CA · San Luis Obispo

4,991 Retail Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 177 employers in San Luis Obispo, 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 0607 - Olympia 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2295 - Cicero 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1941 - Lake Park/Palm Beach Gardens 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0882 - Lake Jackson 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Schreiner Farms 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE FIVE POINTS T.I.C. 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE OFFICE 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brocchini Farms Inc. 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bella Vista Transitional Care Center 8,119 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Men's Colony - San Luis Obispo 1,599 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Men's Colony 1,482 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 279 946 FTE
NAT-TCR 4769-806-Williams Sonoma 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Sysco USA-1 Houston 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Hillside Center KY 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Drury Inn & Suites - Pittsburgh Airport-Settlers Ridge 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ross store 1612 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 2033 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 1129 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 1892 32 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.