Retail Store · California

Ross store 309

Costa Mesa, CA · ~53 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ross store 309 runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Store workplace, earning a grade D.

Ross store 309: 4.4 TCR = 129% of Retail Store BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ross store 309 safety composite

Ross store 309 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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 309: 0.0 → 9.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 9.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.13× in 2020

Ross store 309's TCR rose 9.4 from 0.0 in 2018 to 9.4 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Costa Mesa, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 129% of ind

  • DART 9.4 DART
  • RANK #280/850
  • PHOTO 3326 - Brooklyn King…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 3326 - Brooklyn Kings Hwy (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ross store 309 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ross store 309 averages 4.4 TCR (129% 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 309 TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=3.8 · 2020=9.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Ross store 309 falls in its industry

4,991 Retail Store establishments

Safer than 51% 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 #280 safest of 850 Retail Store employers in California.

Ross store 309 (53 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 309
Ross store 309 (53 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Ross store 309 has fewer employees than the Retail Store median and a lower 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 9.4 9.4 2 0 0
2019 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · CA · Costa Mesa

4,991 Retail Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 185 employers in Costa Mesa, 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 3326 - Brooklyn Kings Hwy 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR WM 617 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbia Dirt Cheap 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 3327 - Seattle Ballard 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE P-R Farms 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE LRC LABOR SERVICES INC 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Acemi Nursery 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ball Tagawa Growers 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR PACIFIC AMPHITHEATER 863 FTE
CITY-NEAR OC Fair & Event Center 861 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Costa Mesa 670 FTE
CITY-NEAR PACWEST Security Services 567 FTE
NAT-TCR Ross store 1228 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 811 Royal Palm Beach, Fl 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 58 Saint Louis Park, Mn 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 0101 - Millwork Mnfg-Klamath Falls 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ross store 89 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 707 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 1551 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 1580 53 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.