Artichokes, canned, manufacturing · California

Walker Foods, Inc.

Los Angeles, CA · ~70 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Walker Foods, Inc. runs at 452% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Artichokes, canned, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Walker Foods, Inc.: 14.9 TCR = 452% of Artichokes, canned, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Walker Foods, Inc. safety composite

Walker Foods, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Walker Foods, Inc.: 13.8 → 17.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 17.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2024

Walker Foods, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.7 from 13.8 in 2022 to 17.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 311421 · Los Angeles, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.9 · 452% of ind

  • DART 14.3 DART
  • RANK #48/52
  • PHOTO President Global/Ame…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: President Global/Ameripec Inc (0.2 TCR gap)

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Walker Foods, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Walker Foods, Inc. averages 14.9 TCR (452% of the Artichokes, canned, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Walker Foods, Inc. TCR series: 2022=13.8 · 2023=13.4 · 2024=17.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Walker Foods, Inc. falls in its industry

330 Artichokes, canned, manufactur establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #48 safest of 52 Artichokes, canned, manufactur employers in California.

Walker Foods, Inc. (70 employees, TCR 14.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Walker Foods, Inc.
Walker Foods, Inc. (70 employees, TCR 14.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Walker Foods, Inc. has fewer employees than the Artichokes, canned, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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 17.5 14.3 11 0 0
2023 13.4 11.7 8 0 0
2022 13.8 8.7 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

311421 · CA · Los Angeles

330 Artichokes, canned, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 2,064 employers in Los Angeles, 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 President Global/Ameripec Inc 15.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Giovanni Foods 14.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stanislaus Food Products 14.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Desert Premium Group 14.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Heritage Land Company 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ceballos Ag Services, Inc. 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRTHN 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE EW Merritt Farms 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Live Nation Worldwide, Inc. 50,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Los Angeles 40,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR LADWP 11,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles Department of Water and Power 10,346 FTE
NAT-TCR Empire 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Butte 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Kre-Bsl Husky Cardinal Drive Operation LLC 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 48 Capital Drive, W. Springfield, MA 01089 14.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Surry-Yadkin Electric Membership Corporation 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mitchell Bros Truck Line 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wadena County Courthouse 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wadena County Sheriff & Jail 70 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.