311421 Fruit and Vegetable Canning · California

South Coast Plaza

Costa Mesa, CA · ~280 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

South Coast Plaza runs at 260% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical 311421 Fruit and Vegetable Canning workplace, earning a grade F.

South Coast Plaza: 8.6 TCR = 260% of 311421 Fruit and Vegetable Canning BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

South Coast Plaza safety composite

South Coast Plaza scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 91% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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 Coast Plaza: 4.6 → 39.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 39.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

South Coast Plaza's TCR rose 34.5 from 4.6 in 2016 to 39.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311421 · Costa Mesa, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 260% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #39/52
  • PHOTO Ingomar Packing Comp…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~280 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ingomar Packing Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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South Coast Plaza in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows South Coast Plaza averages 8.6 TCR (260% of the 311421 Fruit and Vegetable Canning BLS benchmark).

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

South Coast Plaza TCR series: 2016=4.6 · 2017=3.7 · 2018=4 · 2021=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=39.1 · BLS 3.3

Where South Coast Plaza falls in its industry

330 311421 Fruit and Vegetable Can establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 52 311421 Fruit and Vegetable Can employers in California.

South Coast Plaza (280 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate South Coast Plaza
South Coast Plaza (280 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

South Coast Plaza has more employees than the 311421 Fruit and Vegetable Canning median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 39.1 0.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 4.0 3.3 11 0 0
2017 3.7 1.8 10 0 0
2016 4.6 1.3 14 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · CA · Costa Mesa

330 311421 Fruit and Vegetable Canning 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 Ingomar Packing Company 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Del Monte Foods Inc. Plant #112 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glen Arbor Campus 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knouse Foods Coop, Inc - Peach Glen 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm Labor Contractor 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE L&G FARMING, INC. 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE Calpine Geysers 280 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bernards Builders 280 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 Sterling Landscape Company, LLC 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Elizabeth City Health and Rehabilitation 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Pavilion 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Vigilant, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Schaefer Systems International, Inc. 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE International Environmental Corporation 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE N. Wasserstrom & Sons 280 FTE
NAT-SIZE Imperial Industries Inc 280 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, 2021, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.