Grocery stores · California

Vallarta Supermarkets #5

Northridge, CA · ~88 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vallarta Supermarkets #5 runs at 317% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade F.

Vallarta Supermarkets #5: 10.8 TCR = 317% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vallarta Supermarkets #5 safety composite

Vallarta Supermarkets #5 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Vallarta Supermarkets #5: 2.3 → 13.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 19.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2023

Vallarta Supermarkets #5's TCR rose 10.7 from 2.3 in 2018 to 13.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 19.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 317% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #3616/4686
  • PHOTO FAREWAY STORES, INC.…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 50 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FAREWAY STORES, INC. 215 OMAHA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vallarta Supermarkets #5 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vallarta Supermarkets #5 averages 10.8 TCR (317% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Vallarta Supermarkets #5 TCR series: 2018=2.3 · 2019=9.6 · 2020=19.9 · 2021=11.4 · 2022=8.4 · 2023=13 · BLS 3.4

Where Vallarta Supermarkets #5 falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #3616 safest of 4686 Grocery stores employers in California.

Vallarta Supermarkets #5 (88 employees, TCR 10.8) 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 Vallarta Supermarkets #5
Vallarta Supermarkets #5 (88 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Vallarta Supermarkets #5 has fewer employees than the Grocery stores 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
2023 13.0 8.3 11 0 0
2022 8.4 6.0 7 0 0
2021 11.4 10.2 9 0 0
2020 19.9 15.3 13 0 0
2019 9.6 7.2 8 0 0
2018 2.3 1.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Northridge

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 84 employers in Northridge, 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 FAREWAY STORES, INC. 215 OMAHA 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR NAI-0034-0034-00949 FAC-00949-FAIR HAVEN-NJ 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SWY-0025-0025-01617 FAC-01617-ROSEVILLE-CA 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR STOP & SHOP 100606 10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Neil Bassetti Farms, LLC 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Espinosa 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shoei Foods USA, Inc. 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crown Hill Ranches Inc. 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medtronic MiniMed 2,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030341 1,948 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030341-341001 NORTHRIDGE HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER 1,901 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-64030341-341001 1,742 FTE
NAT-TCR Police Department 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR American Red Cross - 29 S Stockwell Rd 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bloomer Healthcare, LLC 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR R. A. Yancey Lumber Corp. 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE SWI Industrial Solutions Webster County 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Taylor Electric Cooperative 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE ILAWC Chicago Metro 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE NovaTech 88 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.