General-line groceries merchant wholesalers · California

Southern California Sales & DSD Facility

La Palma, CA · ~232 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Southern California Sales & DSD Facility runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General-line groceries merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Southern California Sales & DSD Facility: 1.8 TCR = 81% of General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Southern California Sales & DSD Facility safety composite

Southern California Sales & DSD Facility scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.0

2016→2017

Southern California Sales & DSD Facility injury rate improved

Southern California Sales & DSD Facility's TCR fell 1.0 from 2.3 in 2016 to 1.3 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 2.3 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.3 · 2017=1.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424410 · La Palma, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 1.8 · 81% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #11/140
  • PHOTO HAINES CITY
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~232 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HAINES CITY (0.0 TCR gap)

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Southern California Sales & DSD Facility in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Southern California Sales & DSD Facility averages 1.8 TCR (81% of the General-line groceries merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Southern California Sales & DSD Facility TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2017=1.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Southern California Sales & DSD Facility falls in its industry

1,651 General-line groceries merchan establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 140 General-line groceries merchan employers in California.

Southern California Sales & DSD Facility (232 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Southern California Sales & DSD Facility
Southern California Sales & DSD Facility (232 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 172 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Southern California Sales & DSD Facility has more employees than the General-line groceries merchant wholesal median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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
2017 1.3 1.3 2 0 0
2016 2.3 2.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424410 · CA · La Palma

1,651 General-line groceries merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 17 employers in La Palma, 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 HAINES CITY 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 43 - Pittsburg 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CS Wholesale Grocers : Baldwin, FL (FDC) 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Freshway 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bagdasarian Services, LLC 232 FTE
STATE-SIZE ITC California 232 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anaheim Office 232 FTE
STATE-SIZE PCB - Perfection Pet Foods Kibble 232 FTE
CITY-NEAR location 15005 765 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arcadia Chair Company - F1 190 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arcadia Chair Company - F5 129 FTE
CITY-NEAR Veritiv Operating Company - CA410 104 FTE
NAT-TCR Atlantic Nurseries, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 0075 - Wichita, Ks 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ryerson- Columbus 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Curtiss-Wright Surface Technology 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rai Crew Phl 232 FTE
NAT-SIZE Radial 232 FTE
NAT-SIZE Denton (Txden) 232 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dayton (Ohday) 232 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.