Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans · California

TCHO Ventures

Berkeley, CA · ~38 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.8
Avg TCR
4.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

TCHO Ventures runs at 20% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans workplace, earning a grade A.

TCHO Ventures: 0.8 TCR = 20% of Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans BLS 4.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TCHO Ventures safety composite

TCHO Ventures scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% 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

83/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.5

2017→2019

TCHO Ventures injury rate improved

TCHO Ventures's TCR fell 2.5 from 2.5 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.5 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311351 · Berkeley, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.8 · 20% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/7
  • PHOTO Ferrero U.S.A., Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ferrero U.S.A., Inc. (0.2 TCR gap)

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TCHO Ventures in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows TCHO Ventures averages 0.8 TCR (20% of the Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans BLS benchmark).

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

TCHO Ventures TCR series: 2017=2.5 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · BLS 4.2

Where TCHO Ventures falls in its industry

65 Chocolate, confectionery, made establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 7 Chocolate, confectionery, made employers in California.

TCHO Ventures (38 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 178 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate TCHO Ventures
TCHO Ventures (38 employees, TCR 0.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 178 employees and a TCR of 3.5

TCHO Ventures has fewer employees than the Chocolate, confectionery, made from caca median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 2.5 2.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311351 · CA · Berkeley

65 Chocolate, confectionery, made from cacao beans 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Ferrero U.S.A., Inc. 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ELZ 1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wilbur Chocolate 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Demets Candy Co 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE CAL-O SHIPPING 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE GAR & S Farm Labor Services, Inc. 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Supreme Almonds of California, Inc. 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bays Ranch Inc 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Berkeley 22,120 FTE
CITY-NEAR Alta Bates Summit Medical Center (213-ABH) 1,998 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Bay Hospitals (30391) 1,917 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berkeley, CA 1,106 FTE
NAT-TCR Advanced Disposal - Atlanta Recycling Facility 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Advanced Disposal - Fort Wayne Hauling Company 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Extrel CMS, LLC 0.8 TCR
NAT-TCR US OH 8241 Expansion Way 0.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Moser's Foods #1 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE DBE Manufacturing 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rcs Ks 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Covanta MacArthur Renewable Energy, Inc. 38 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.