Used merchandise stores · California

Slo Hq

San Luis Obispo, CA · ~89 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Slo Hq runs at 263% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Used merchandise stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Slo Hq: 8.9 TCR = 263% of Used merchandise stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Slo Hq safety composite

Slo Hq scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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 8.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Slo Hq: 5.6 → 13.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 14.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.11× in 2024

Slo Hq's TCR rose 8.1 from 5.6 in 2020 to 13.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 14.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 453310 · San Luis Obispo, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.9 · 263% of ind

  • DART 10.0 DART
  • RANK #58/82
  • PHOTO Thrift Books Global,…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Thrift Books Global, LLC (Reno, NV) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Slo Hq in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Slo Hq averages 8.9 TCR (263% of the Used merchandise stores BLS benchmark).

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

Slo Hq TCR series: 2020=5.6 · 2021=14.3 · 2022=3.7 · 2023=7.5 · 2024=13.7 · BLS 3.4

Where Slo Hq falls in its industry

1,556 Used merchandise stores establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #58 safest of 82 Used merchandise stores employers in California.

Slo Hq (89 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Slo Hq
Slo Hq (89 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 36 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Slo Hq has more employees than the Used merchandise stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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
2024 13.7 10.0 9 2 0
2023 7.5 5.0 4 2 0
2022 3.7 3.7 3 0 0
2021 14.3 11.9 11 1 0
2020 5.6 5.6 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

453310 · CA · San Luis Obispo

1,556 Used merchandise stores 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 Thrift Books Global, LLC (Reno, NV) 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dixieland 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goodwill Industries of the Valleys, Inc. Charlottesville (55) 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR America's Thrift Store #8 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bud of California Broccoli 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE GMI - CA 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ramona 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Booth Ranches LLC-BR1 89 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 VNA of Boston 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Connor Sports 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Oregon City 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Aquarius Water Conditioning, Inc 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sun-Pac Manufacturing 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hanson International Inc 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Salveo Medical Group, INC. 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rioav LLC 89 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.