Dairy products, frozen, merchant wholesalers · California

TransCold Distribution - San Diego

Name: TransCold Distribution - San Diego Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Poway, CA · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 6.5
Avg TCR: 2.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

TransCold Distribution - San Diego runs at 297% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Dairy products, frozen, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

TransCold Distribution - San Diego: 6.5 TCR = 297% of Dairy products, frozen, merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

TransCold Distribution - San Diego safety composite

TransCold Distribution - San Diego scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 42%), 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).

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 6.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−13.1

2021→2023

TransCold Distribution - San Diego injury rate improved

TransCold Distribution - San Diego's TCR fell 13.1 from 13.1 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.1 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=13.1 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424430 · Poway, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.5 · 297% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #16/22
PHOTO DFA DISTRIBUTING NOR…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DFA DISTRIBUTING NORTH - GRAND RAPIDS - 397 MART (0.1 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · California employers → · Look up another →

Tampa Facility

6.6
DFA DISTRIBUTI

6.6
This site

6.5
DFA DISTRIBUTI

6.5
DFA DISTRIBUTI

6.5

What this shows TransCold Distribution - San Diego averages 6.5 TCR (297% of the Dairy products, frozen, merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

TransCold Distribution - San Diego TCR series: 2021=13.1 · 2023=0 · BLS 2.2

Where TransCold Distribution - San Diego falls in its industry

231 Dairy products, frozen, mercha establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.9.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 22 Dairy products, frozen, mercha employers in California.

TransCold Distribution - San Diego (30 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 5.9

TransCold Distribution - San Diego has fewer employees than the Dairy products, frozen, merchant wholesa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.9. 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
2023	0.0	0.0	0	0	0
2021	13.1	13.1	3	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424430 · CA · Poway

231 Dairy products, frozen, merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 143 employers in Poway, 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	DFA DISTRIBUTING NORTH - GRAND RAPIDS - 397 MART	WYOMING, MI	6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	DFA DISTRIBUTING SOUTH - RALEIGH NC	RALEIGH, NC	6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Tampa Facility	TAMPA, FL	6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	DFA DISTRIBUTING NORTH - HUNTINGTON IN	HUNTINGTON, IN	6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	BZNUR	PORTERVILLE	30 FTE
STATE-SIZE	1780 San Juan Rd.	AROMAS	30 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Charter Oaks	ARBUCKLE	30 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Greenfields Turf, Inc.	GREENFIELD	30 FTE
CITY-NEAR	General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Poway Campus	Poway	4,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Geneal Atomics Facilities and Support Groups	Poway	1,169 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Palomar Medical Center Poway	Poway	889 FTE
CITY-NEAR	General Atomics - Poway - A15	Poway	661 FTE
NAT-TCR	Acme Maonco Corp	Presque Isle, ME	6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	West Side Middle School	Waterbury, CT	6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Gulf Shores	Gulf Shores, AL	6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	SP - Spokane	Spokane, WA	6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	American House - Roseville Memory Center	Roseville, MI	30 FTE
NAT-SIZE	American House Freedom Place - Rochester Hills	Rochester Hills, MI	30 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Anderson Resource Center - PNG	Anderson, SC	30 FTE
NAT-SIZE	LaValley Industries	Bemidji, MN	30 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. 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.