Grocery Store · California

Superior Grocers # 140

Bellflower, CA · ~80 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Superior Grocers # 140 runs at 334% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Superior Grocers # 140: 11.4 TCR = 334% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Superior Grocers # 140 safety composite

Superior Grocers # 140 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Superior Grocers # 140: 4.4 → 13.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 16.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.59× in 2019

Superior Grocers # 140's TCR rose 9.0 from 4.4 in 2017 to 13.4 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 16.3 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Bellflower, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.4 · 334% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #3733/4686
  • PHOTO Trader Joe's 0685 La…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Trader Joe's 0685 La Grange (0.0 TCR gap)

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Superior Grocers # 140 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Superior Grocers # 140 averages 11.4 TCR (334% of the Grocery Store BLS benchmark).

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

Superior Grocers # 140 TCR series: 2017=4.4 · 2018=16.3 · 2019=13.4 · BLS 3.4

Where Superior Grocers # 140 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3733 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Superior Grocers # 140 (80 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Superior Grocers # 140
Superior Grocers # 140 (80 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Superior Grocers # 140 has fewer employees than the Grocery Store median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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
2019 13.4 6.7 8 2 0
2018 16.3 13.3 10 1 0
2017 4.4 3.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Bellflower

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 41 employers in Bellflower, 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 Trader Joe's 0685 La Grange 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rouses Market #54 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 6962-ABS-0029-0028-02305 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 5472-NAI-0032-0032-04228 11.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE JJJ HARVESTING 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE T&A - Huron - Farm 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pacifc International Marketing 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wilgenburg Greenhouses 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 199 2,546 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-08180101 1,923 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-08680101 966 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2171-LA/Orange County, CA 378 FTE
NAT-TCR Great Kills Neighborhood Senior Center 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Springdale 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Hometown #687 (Greenfield, IA) 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR East Texas Medical Center Emergency Medical Services (Smith County) 11.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Olympics West Senior Living Community 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-Abs 0004 0064 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-Abs 0016 0341 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4054-Abs 0016 0940 80 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: 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.