Retail Store · California

Ross store 254

Palm Desert, CA · ~41 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ross store 254 runs at 178% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Store workplace, earning a grade D.

Ross store 254: 6.0 TCR = 178% of Retail Store BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ross store 254 safety composite

Ross store 254 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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 254: 5.8 → 6.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2020

Ross store 254's TCR rose 1.1 from 5.8 in 2018 to 6.8 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Palm Desert, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 178% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #430/850
  • PHOTO 2880 - Auburn Center…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2880 - Auburn Center St (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ross store 254 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ross store 254 averages 6.0 TCR (178% 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 254 TCR series: 2018=5.8 · 2019=5.5 · 2020=6.8 · BLS 3.4

Where Ross store 254 falls in its industry

4,991 Retail Store establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #430 safest of 850 Retail Store employers in California.

Ross store 254 (41 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 254
Ross store 254 (41 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Ross store 254 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 6.8 6.8 1 0 0
2019 5.5 5.5 1 0 0
2018 5.8 5.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · CA · Palm Desert

4,991 Retail Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 106 employers in Palm Desert, 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 2880 - Auburn Center St 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 5072 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR DDs DISCOUNTS Store 5182 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 0531 - Lawrence 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE CAL-O ORGANIC FARMING ADMINISTRATION 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | Lindsay 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Farming | Citrus Farming | IEW Enterprise 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE George Jackson Farms, Inc. 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort and Spa 994 FTE
CITY-NEAR JW Marriott Desert Springs 800 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marriott Shadow Ridge 404 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5096 357 FTE
NAT-TCR Handwerk Site Contractors 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Fre 14 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Autocar Trucks Birmingham 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 0000000094 Quickchek Food Stores 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ross store 571 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 1511 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 1032 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 1688 41 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. 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.