Fresh fish merchant wholesalers · California

True World Foods

Vernon, CA · ~74 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

True World Foods runs at 291% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fresh fish merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

True World Foods: 6.4 TCR = 291% of Fresh fish merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

True World Foods safety composite

True World Foods scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.8

2017→2018

True World Foods injury rate improved

True World Foods's TCR fell 1.8 from 7.3 in 2017 to 5.5 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.3 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.3 · 2018=5.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424460 · Vernon, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.4 · 291% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #10/17
  • PHOTO Pacific Seafood
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pacific Seafood (0.0 TCR gap)

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True World Foods in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows True World Foods averages 6.4 TCR (291% of the Fresh fish merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

True World Foods TCR series: 2017=7.3 · 2018=5.5 · BLS 2.2

Where True World Foods falls in its industry

88 Fresh fish merchant wholesaler establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 17 Fresh fish merchant wholesaler employers in California.

True World Foods (74 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 6.4 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate True World Foods
True World Foods (74 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 57 employees and a TCR of 6.4

True World Foods has more employees than the Fresh fish merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.4. 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
2018 5.5 5.5 5 0 0
2017 7.3 7.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424460 · CA · Vernon

88 Fresh fish merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 146 employers in Vernon, 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 Pacific Seafood 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SANTA MONICA SEAFOOD 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR HKH JVC LLC dba Norpac Fisheries Export 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Garbo Lobster - CT 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wonderful Orchards-New Columbia 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Apricot Lane Farms 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Central California Almond Growers (Kerman) 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jose Jesus Garcia Jr 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods, Inc. - Vernon, CA 1,633 FTE
CITY-NEAR GRANDE VISTA (CAGVS) 1,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAGVS - GRANDE VISTA 1,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods - Vernon 984 FTE
NAT-TCR Lelm-Hct-Little Elm 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR AppianManufacturing Corporation 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Manor Care Health Services - West Allen 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mayfield - Chatanooga 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aratana Therapeutics Kansas location 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE J. D. Mushrooms Inc 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bg-Mcd#2 Inc 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Port City Custom Plastics, Mirror Image Tool and Port City Group Corporate 74 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: 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.