Correctional institutions · California

Avenal State Prison

Avenal, CA · ~1,304 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
21.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
2
Fatalities
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The verdict

Avenal State Prison runs at 681% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Correctional institutions workplace, earning a grade F.

Avenal State Prison: 21.8 TCR = 681% of Correctional institutions BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Avenal State Prison safety composite

Avenal State Prison scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 19% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

8/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 21.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 2

Safer than 2% 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

Avenal State Prison: 6.7 → 18.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 45.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.38× in 2024

Avenal State Prison's TCR rose 11.8 from 6.7 in 2017 to 18.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 45.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922140 · Avenal, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 21.8 · 681% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #72/73
  • PHOTO Women's Huron Valley…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 598 inj
  • SIZE ~1,304 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility (0.1 TCR gap)

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Avenal State Prison in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Avenal State Prison averages 21.8 TCR (681% of the Correctional institutions BLS benchmark).

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

Avenal State Prison TCR series: 2017=6.7 · 2018=4.4 · 2020=35.7 · 2022=45.5 · 2023=19.8 · 2024=18.6 · BLS 3.2

Where Avenal State Prison falls in its industry

482 Correctional institutions establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #72 safest of 73 Correctional institutions employers in California.

Avenal State Prison (1,304 employees, TCR 21.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 05001,0001,500 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Avenal State Prison
Avenal State Prison (1,304 employees, TCR 21.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Avenal State Prison has more employees than the Correctional institutions median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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
2024 18.6 8.3 147 69 0
2023 19.8 11.0 119 105 0
2022 45.5 30.3 129 358 1
2020 35.7 24.1 84 319 0
2018 4.4 1.8 49 2 1
2017 6.7 2.0 70 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922140 · CA · Avenal

482 Correctional institutions employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 4 employers in Avenal, 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 Women's Huron Valley Correctional Facility 21.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Minnesota Correctional Facility-Faribault 22.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parnall Correctional Facility 22.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CDCR- Calipatria State Prison 22.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sutter Health (30336) 1,304 FTE
STATE-SIZE ROCKWELL DRYWALL, INC. 1,302 FTE
STATE-SIZE 02822401 FRESNO HOSPITAL - SEQUOIA 1,302 FTE
STATE-SIZE 64030211-211001 MERCY MEDICAL CENTER MERCED 1,306 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kochergen Farms Composting 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4186-29197 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR 29197 STORE 29197 23 FTE
NAT-TCR Missoula #165 21.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Colonial Health and Rehab Center of Plainfield, LLC 21.8 TCR
NAT-TCR DPP7 21.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZNCA 21.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Olmsted County 1,304 FTE
NAT-SIZE ERMCO 1,304 FTE
NAT-SIZE 10000 S. Wilmot 1,304 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Security, LLC 1,305 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, 2020, 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.