Automobile dealers, new only or new and used · California

South Bay Ford Inc.

Hawthorne, CA · ~209 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.5
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

South Bay Ford Inc. runs at 426% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Automobile dealers, new only or new and used workplace, earning a grade F.

South Bay Ford Inc.: 14.5 TCR = 426% of Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS 3.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

South Bay Ford Inc. safety composite

South Bay Ford Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

South Bay Ford Inc.: 9.3 → 13.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 56.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.82× in 2024

South Bay Ford Inc.'s TCR rose 4.6 from 9.3 in 2017 to 13.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 56.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 441110 · Hawthorne, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 14.5 · 426% of ind

  • DART 11.9 DART
  • RANK #290/301
  • PHOTO Lasorsa Management C…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 85 inj
  • SIZE ~209 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lasorsa Management Corp. (0.2 TCR gap)

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South Bay Ford Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows South Bay Ford Inc. averages 14.5 TCR (426% of the Automobile dealers, new only or new and used BLS benchmark).

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

South Bay Ford Inc. TCR series: 2017=9.3 · 2019=9.5 · 2020=18.5 · 2021=6.6 · 2022=56.5 · 2023=29.1 · 2024=13.9 · BLS 3.4

Where South Bay Ford Inc. falls in its industry

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only o establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #290 safest of 301 Automobile dealers, new only o employers in California.

South Bay Ford Inc. (209 employees, TCR 14.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate South Bay Ford Inc.
South Bay Ford Inc. (209 employees, TCR 14.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.3

South Bay Ford Inc. has more employees than the Automobile dealers, new only or new and median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 13.9 11.9 7 21 0
2023 29.1 26.4 9 33 0
2022 56.5 54.0 19 93 0
2021 6.6 2.0 13 0 0
2020 18.5 17.5 6 29 0
2019 9.5 2.4 16 0 0
2017 9.3 8.2 15 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

441110 · CA · Hawthorne

2,847 Automobile dealers, new only or new and used employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 78 employers in Hawthorne, 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 Lasorsa Management Corp. 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR WAM Acquistions Casper 14.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2288 14.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kia of Clermont 14.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Valle Del Sol 209 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-Dominguez Hills S/C 209 FTE
STATE-SIZE CENTRAL DISTRICT - POWER 209 FTE
STATE-SIZE Christian Brothers Mechanical Services, Inc. 209 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hawthorne, CA 7,104 FTE
CITY-NEAR South Bay Workforce Investment Board, Inc. 4,618 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 206 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DLA8 2,331 FTE
NAT-TCR Town of Industry 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 20031 Midwest Distribution Center 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR AaCron Inc 14.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lynx Contractors, Inc. 14.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Texas Twist/Pretzel, Inc 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Rosemount 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE Performance Contractors, Inc. - Dow-Plaquemine 209 FTE
NAT-SIZE Preformed Line Products 209 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, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.