Mail and Parcel Delivery · California

055802-Palo Alto Po

Palo Alto, CA · ~168 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

055802-Palo Alto Po runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Mail and Parcel Delivery workplace, earning a grade D.

055802-Palo Alto Po: 6.1 TCR = 136% of Mail and Parcel Delivery BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

055802-Palo Alto Po safety composite

055802-Palo Alto Po scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.5

2017→2022

055802-Palo Alto Po injury rate improved

055802-Palo Alto Po's TCR fell 8.5 from 10.4 in 2017 to 1.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.4 · 2018=7.2 · 2019=5.1 · 2022=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 491110 · Palo Alto, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 136% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #553/1240
  • PHOTO SERRA MESA_1381235
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~168 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SERRA MESA_1381235 (0.0 TCR gap)

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055802-Palo Alto Po in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 055802-Palo Alto Po averages 6.1 TCR (136% of the Mail and Parcel Delivery BLS benchmark).

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

055802-Palo Alto Po TCR series: 2017=10.4 · 2018=7.2 · 2019=5.1 · 2022=1.8 · BLS 4.5

Where 055802-Palo Alto Po falls in its industry

13,818 Mail and Parcel Delivery establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #553 safest of 1240 Mail and Parcel Delivery employers in California.

055802-Palo Alto Po (168 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.8 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate 055802-Palo Alto Po
055802-Palo Alto Po (168 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.8

055802-Palo Alto Po has more employees than the Mail and Parcel Delivery median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.8. 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
2022 1.8 1.8 3 0 0
2019 5.1 5.1 8 0 0
2018 7.2 7.2 12 2 0
2017 10.4 9.3 19 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

491110 · CA · Palo Alto

13,818 Mail and Parcel Delivery employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 116 employers in Palo Alto, 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 SERRA MESA_1381235 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR RED OAK_1378955 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR LOG CHICAGO METRO PRIRTY ANX_1558417 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR BUFFALO CARRIER ANNEX_1356265 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mininger Farms 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bud of California Lettuce 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Sun Grower Services/Equipment Services & Lucero Farms - Los Banos 168 FTE
STATE-SIZE CCH 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stanford Health Care 16,371 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-CA-Palo Alto-Deer Creek-Office 1,878 FTE
CITY-NEAR Varian, Palo Alto 1,396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-10110) 1,227 FTE
NAT-TCR 070090-Alamosa Po 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 484940-La Porte Po 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 483345-Fulshear Po 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 6925-TUL 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 316201-Nor-Meadow Mesa Sta 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE 485454-Mcallen Tx P&Dc 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE 160282-Arlington Heights Po 168 FTE
NAT-SIZE 181502-Cedar Rapids P&Dc 168 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: 2022, 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.