Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries · California

Starter Bakery

Name: Starter Bakery Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Berkeley, CA · ~74 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.2
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Starter Bakery runs at 96% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade C.

Starter Bakery: 3.2 TCR = 96% of Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Starter Bakery safety composite

Starter Bakery scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 89% 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).

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% 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%).

Starter Bakery held a steady TCR band

Starter Bakery's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=0.0 · 2021=9.5 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Berkeley, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 96% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #45/139
PHOTO SACRAMENTO CA (STRIK…
BOOK 3y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SACRAMENTO CA (STRIKER AVE) DEPOT (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Starter Bakery averages 3.2 TCR (96% of the Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

Starter Bakery TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=9.5 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Starter Bakery falls in its industry

1,014 Bakery products, fresh (i.e., establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #45 safest of 139 Bakery products, fresh (i.e., employers in California.

Starter Bakery (74 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Starter Bakery has fewer employees than the Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cak median and a lower 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
2023	0.0	0.0	0
2021	9.5	6.3	3
2020	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · CA · Berkeley

1,014 Bakery products, fresh (i.e., bread, cakes, doughnuts, pastries), made in commercial bakeries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 120 employers in Berkeley, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	SACRAMENTO CA (STRIKER AVE) DEPOT	SACRAMENTO, CA	3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	TAYLOR MI DEPOT	TAYLOR, MI	3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SAN DIEGO CA (RUFFIN RD) DEPOT	SAN DIEGO, CA	3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Woodinville WA (200th Ave) Depot	WOODINVILLE, WA	3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Wonderful Orchards-New Columbia	FIREBAUGH	74 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Apricot Lane Farms	MOORPARK	74 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Central California Almond Growers (Kerman)	KERMAN	74 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Jose Jesus Garcia Jr	PORTERVILLE	74 FTE
CITY-NEAR	UC Berkeley	Berkeley	22,120 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (213-ABH)	Berkeley	1,998 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Sutter Bay Hospitals (30391)	Berkeley	1,917 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Berkeley, CA	Berkeley	1,106 FTE
NAT-TCR	T. T. Coatings Inc. Mile marker 104	Westwego, LA	3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Astronics LSI	East Aurora, NY	3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Transit (FST)	Cedar Rapids, IA	3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Isd #166	Grand Marais, MN	3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Spee Dee Delivery Service, Inc- Rockford	Rockford, IL	74 FTE
NAT-SIZE	North 40 Outfitters #7	Mead, WA	74 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cycle Construction Co LLC	Kenner, LA	74 FTE
NAT-SIZE	American Paper Converting Inc.	Woodland, WA	74 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: 2023, 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.