Retail Store · California

Ross store 409

Novato, CA · ~38 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ross store 409 runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Retail Store workplace, earning a grade D.

Ross store 409: 6.5 TCR = 192% of Retail Store BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ross store 409 safety composite

Ross store 409 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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 409: 6.4 → 7.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.09× in 2020

Ross store 409's TCR rose 0.7 from 6.4 in 2018 to 7.1 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.09× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452112 · Novato, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.5 · 192% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #483/850
  • PHOTO 0739 - S Colorado Sp…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 0739 - S Colorado Springs (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ross store 409 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ross store 409 averages 6.5 TCR (192% 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 409 TCR series: 2018=6.4 · 2019=6.1 · 2020=7.1 · BLS 3.4

Where Ross store 409 falls in its industry

4,991 Retail Store establishments

Safer than 28% 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 #483 safest of 850 Retail Store employers in California.

Ross store 409 (38 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 409
Ross store 409 (38 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Ross store 409 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 7.1 7.1 1 0 0
2019 6.1 6.1 1 0 0
2018 6.4 6.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452112 · CA · Novato

4,991 Retail Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 79 employers in Novato, 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 0739 - S Colorado Springs 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1971 - Hartland Township 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Slidell Dirt Cheap 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ross store 1100 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE CAL-O SHIPPING 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE GAR & S Farm Labor Services, Inc. 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Supreme Almonds of California, Inc. 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bays Ranch Inc 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc. 2,276 FTE
CITY-NEAR Township Building Services, Inc. 1,341 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Bay Hospitals (30256) 355 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novato Community Hospital (274-NC-HSP) 337 FTE
NAT-TCR Ross store 1100 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ross store 888 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR C&S Cabinets, Inc. 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ferry Rd 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ross store 429 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ross store 825 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE ECP - Ground Ops 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4769-970-Williams Sonoma 38 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.