Grocery Store · California

Superior Grocers #142

Gardena, CA · ~76 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Superior Grocers #142 runs at 209% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery Store workplace, earning a grade F.

Superior Grocers #142: 7.1 TCR = 209% of Grocery Store BLS 3.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Superior Grocers #142 safety composite

Superior Grocers #142 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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 #142: 3.1 → 10.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 10.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2022

Superior Grocers #142's TCR rose 6.9 from 3.1 in 2020 to 10.0 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 209% of ind

  • DART 8.0 DART
  • RANK #2470/4686
  • PHOTO VEGA BAJA
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: VEGA BAJA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Superior Grocers #142 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Superior Grocers #142 averages 7.1 TCR (209% 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 #142 TCR series: 2020=3.1 · 2021=8.2 · 2022=10 · BLS 3.4

Where Superior Grocers #142 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery Store establishments

Safer than 25% 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 #2470 safest of 4686 Grocery Store employers in California.

Superior Grocers #142 (76 employees, TCR 7.1) 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 #142
Superior Grocers #142 (76 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Superior Grocers #142 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
2022 10.0 8.0 5 0 0
2021 8.2 6.2 4 0 0
2020 3.1 1.6 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Gardena

30,654 Grocery Store employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 223 employers in Gardena, 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 VEGA BAJA 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kimberton Whole Foods Collegeville 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dragon Star Supermarket 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Grocers 113 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE CAL-O ADMINISTRATION 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3181_6797 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE J&J Labor,Inc. 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fujishige Farms, Inc. 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 602 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-030 909 FTE
CITY-NEAR GARDENA HUB (CAGAR) 809 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAGAR - GARDENA HUB 794 FTE
NAT-TCR Price Less Foods #490 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 1217 Tonawanda 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Drews Total Concrete 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Lancaster Tx (Plci Blue Fleet) 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4598-Rtc Tulsa 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE B&R Machine 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5472-NAI-0034-0034-01851 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5472-NAI-0034-0034-02450 76 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: 2022, 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.