Commercial bakeries · California

Venice Bakery - Torrance

Torrance, CA · ~372 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Venice Bakery - Torrance runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Commercial bakeries workplace, earning a grade D.

Venice Bakery - Torrance: 5.0 TCR = 153% of Commercial bakeries BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Venice Bakery - Torrance safety composite

Venice Bakery - Torrance scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Venice Bakery - Torrance: 1.9 → 7.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 9.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.11× in 2020

Venice Bakery - Torrance's TCR rose 5.8 from 1.9 in 2017 to 7.7 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311812 · Torrance, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 153% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #75/139
  • PHOTO KANSAS CITY MO DEPOT
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 76 inj
  • SIZE ~372 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KANSAS CITY MO DEPOT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Venice Bakery - Torrance in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Venice Bakery - Torrance averages 5.0 TCR (153% of the Commercial bakeries BLS benchmark).

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

Venice Bakery - Torrance TCR series: 2017=1.9 · 2018=1.2 · 2019=9.4 · 2020=7.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Venice Bakery - Torrance falls in its industry

1,014 Commercial bakeries establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #75 safest of 139 Commercial bakeries employers in California.

Venice Bakery - Torrance (372 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Venice Bakery - Torrance
Venice Bakery - Torrance (372 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 117 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Venice Bakery - Torrance has more employees than the Commercial bakeries median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2020 7.7 5.6 28 1 0
2019 9.4 7.6 34 2 0
2018 1.2 1.2 11 0 0
2017 1.9 1.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311812 · CA · Torrance

1,014 Commercial bakeries employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 332 employers in Torrance, 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 KANSAS CITY MO DEPOT 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Taste of Scandinavia Bakery 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR North 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ashcraft/European Bakery, L.P. 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Agriculture labor 372 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Bagel Baking Corp 372 FTE
STATE-SIZE Joby Aviation 333 Encinal Street Santa Cruz 372 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roseville Toyota 372 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harbor-UCLA Medical Center 4,144 FTE
CITY-NEAR Torrance Memorial Medical Center 3,808 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles 3,229 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 494 2,621 FTE
NAT-TCR Sonesta ES Suites South Brunswick - Princeton 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Everett 235 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Chillicothe Save A Lot# 23555 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Paltech Enterprises Inc. 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE SHP Management Corp 372 FTE
NAT-SIZE IAA Corporate 372 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shamokin - Main Hospital 372 FTE
NAT-SIZE TechServ Consulting & Training, LTD 372 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: 2020, 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.