Parks and Recreation · California

00000007 Parks Recreation Department

Santa Cruz, CA · ~225 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.2
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

00000007 Parks Recreation Department runs at 426% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Parks and Recreation workplace, earning a grade F.

00000007 Parks Recreation Department: 13.2 TCR = 426% of Parks and Recreation BLS 3.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

00000007 Parks Recreation Department safety composite

00000007 Parks Recreation Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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%).

00000007 Parks Recreation Department held a steady TCR band

00000007 Parks Recreation Department's TCR held near 0.1 from 13.3 in 2023 to 13.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 13.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=13.3 · 2024=13.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712190 · Santa Cruz, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.2 · 426% of ind

  • DART 11.0 DART
  • RANK #11/14
  • PHOTO East Bay Regional Pa…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~225 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: East Bay Regional Park District (0.1 TCR gap)

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00000007 Parks Recreation Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 00000007 Parks Recreation Department averages 13.2 TCR (426% of the Parks and Recreation BLS benchmark).

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

00000007 Parks Recreation Department TCR series: 2023=13.3 · 2024=13.2 · BLS 3.1

Where 00000007 Parks Recreation Department falls in its industry

126 Parks and Recreation establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 14 Parks and Recreation employers in California.

00000007 Parks Recreation Department (225 employees, TCR 13.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 6.7 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate 00000007 Parks Recreation Department
00000007 Parks Recreation Department (225 employees, TCR 13.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 6.7

00000007 Parks Recreation Department has more employees than the Parks and Recreation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.7. 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
2024 13.2 11.0 11 1 0
2023 13.3 12.1 11 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712190 · CA · Santa Cruz

126 Parks and Recreation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 133 employers in Santa Cruz, 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 East Bay Regional Park District 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Passaic County Parks Department 13.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parks and Recreation 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Centennial Enterprises, Inc. 12.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trinity Packing Company 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE Floradale 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE CINNABAR SERVICE CENTER 225 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fresno Water Division 225 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Santa Cruz 8,081 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030253 1,732 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dignity Health Dominican Hospital 1,652 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030253-253001 DOMINICAN HOSPITAL SANTA CRUZ 1,464 FTE
NAT-TCR Doubletree San Antonio Airport 13.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Nhken - Keene 13.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Idhai - Hailey 13.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Public Works 13.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nywin - New Windsor 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE Idnam - Nampa Center 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ridgeview Health Services 225 FTE
NAT-SIZE Timber Ridge at Talus 225 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. 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.