Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities · California

00019533 Public Works

Santa Cruz, CA · ~307 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

00019533 Public Works runs at 250% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities workplace, earning a grade F.

00019533 Public Works: 8.0 TCR = 250% of Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

00019533 Public Works safety composite

00019533 Public Works scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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%).

00019533 Public Works held a steady TCR band

00019533 Public Works's TCR held near 0.2 from 7.9 in 2023 to 8.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=7.9 · 2024=8.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Santa Cruz, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 250% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #167/256
  • PHOTO COH City Hall Annex
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~307 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: COH City Hall Annex (0.0 TCR gap)

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00019533 Public Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 00019533 Public Works averages 8.0 TCR (250% of the Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities BLS benchmark).

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

00019533 Public Works TCR series: 2023=7.9 · 2024=8.1 · BLS 3.2

Where 00019533 Public Works falls in its industry

1,496 Other Justice, Public Order, a establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #167 safest of 256 Other Justice, Public Order, a employers in California.

00019533 Public Works (307 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0200400600800 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate 00019533 Public Works
00019533 Public Works (307 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

00019533 Public Works has more employees than the Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 8.1 6.6 16 0 0
2023 7.9 6.8 13 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · CA · Santa Cruz

1,496 Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities 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 COH City Hall Annex 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR City Of Sacramento-Community Response Roll-Up (230010) 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR MOA, M&O, Fleet Mx, Bering St 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Geneva Public Works Department 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Joint Water Pollution Control Plant 307 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Evolution Construction, Inc 307 FTE
STATE-SIZE SunPower Corp. - SPSV San Jose B 51 307 FTE
STATE-SIZE BT Los Angeles (Cypress) 307 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 Sea Breeze Fruit Flavors Inc 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR World Wide Manufacturing 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Chesapeake Spice Co NV 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Norfolk Coating Services, LLC 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Penn Jersey Paper 307 FTE
NAT-SIZE Almob - Mobile Center 307 FTE
NAT-SIZE Queeaz-Inc-Queen Creek,Az - Arizona 307 FTE
NAT-SIZE US Beverage Packers, LLC 307 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.