Dried foods (e.g., fruits, milk, vegetables) merchant wholesalers · California

The Chefs Warehouse West Coast, LLC. _Walnut, CA

Walnut, CA · ~200 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Chefs Warehouse West Coast, LLC. _Walnut, CA runs at 343% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dried foods (e.g., fruits, milk, vegetables) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

The Chefs Warehouse West Coast, LLC. _Walnut, CA: 7.5 TCR = 343% of Dried foods (e.g., fruits, milk, vegetables) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Chefs Warehouse West Coast, LLC. _Walnut, CA safety composite

The Chefs Warehouse West Coast, LLC. _Walnut, CA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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%).

The Chefs Warehouse West Coast, LLC. _Walnut, CA held a steady TCR band

The Chefs Warehouse West Coast, LLC. _Walnut, CA's TCR held near 0.2 from 7.8 in 2022 to 7.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=7.8 · 2023=7.2 · 2024=7.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424490 · Walnut, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 343% of ind

  • DART 7.6 DART
  • RANK #54/114
  • PHOTO 2015 - Salinas
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 50 inj
  • SIZE ~200 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 2015 - Salinas (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Chefs Warehouse West Coast, LLC. _Walnut, CA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Chefs Warehouse West Coast, LLC. _Walnut, CA averages 7.5 TCR (343% of the Dried foods (e.g., fruits, milk, vegetables) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

The Chefs Warehouse West Coast, LLC. _Walnut, CA TCR series: 2022=7.8 · 2023=7.2 · 2024=7.6 · BLS 2.2

Where The Chefs Warehouse West Coast, LLC. _Walnut, CA falls in its industry

1,278 Dried foods (e.g., fruits, mil establishments

Safer than 35% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #54 safest of 114 Dried foods (e.g., fruits, mil employers in California.

The Chefs Warehouse West Coast, LLC. _Walnut, CA (200 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate The Chefs Warehouse West Coast, LLC. _Walnut, CA
The Chefs Warehouse West Coast, LLC. _Walnut, CA (200 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 73 employees and a TCR of 6.0

The Chefs Warehouse West Coast, LLC. _Walnut, CA has more employees than the Dried foods (e.g., fruits, milk, vegetab median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.0. 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
2024 7.6 7.6 18 0 0
2023 7.2 7.2 16 0 0
2022 7.8 5.9 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424490 · CA · Walnut

1,278 Dried foods (e.g., fruits, milk, vegetables) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 43 employers in Walnut, 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 2015 - Salinas 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR OnCue #960 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MT PLEASANT MI 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hub 317 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE All Seasons Harvesting 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE DN AG 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE 103227 - Alamitos Energy Project 200 FTE
STATE-SIZE Browning Contractors Inc. 200 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 510 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sysco Los Angeles 788 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sysco 788 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shea Homes LP 653 FTE
NAT-TCR Hilton Garden Inn Eagan 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mount Hope Dairy 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Porter Steel, Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 8966 Moses Lake 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5025-Wichita Hauling 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Millennium Post-Acute Rehabilitation 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atl Ltl 200 FTE
NAT-SIZE Printing Services 200 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.