Community colleges offering a wide variety of academic and technical training · Oregon

Chemeketa Community College - Salem

Salem, OR · ~873 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chemeketa Community College - Salem runs at 191% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Community colleges offering a wide variety of academic and technical training workplace, earning a grade D.

Chemeketa Community College - Salem: 2.7 TCR = 191% of Community colleges offering a wide variety of academic and technical training BLS 1.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chemeketa Community College - Salem safety composite

Chemeketa Community College - Salem scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 2.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

−0.7

2021→2024

Chemeketa Community College - Salem injury rate improved

Chemeketa Community College - Salem's TCR fell 0.7 from 2.6 in 2021 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 3.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.6 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=1.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611210 · Salem, OR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 2.7 · 191% of ind

  • DART 0.6 DART
  • RANK #4/7
  • PHOTO IECC - Workforce Edu…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 43 inj
  • SIZE ~873 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: IECC - Workforce Education (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chemeketa Community College - Salem in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chemeketa Community College - Salem averages 2.7 TCR (191% of the Community colleges offering a wide variety of academic and technical training BLS benchmark).

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

Chemeketa Community College - Salem TCR series: 2021=2.6 · 2022=3.3 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 1.4

Where Chemeketa Community College - Salem falls in its industry

127 Community colleges offering a establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 7 Community colleges offering a employers in Oregon.

Chemeketa Community College - Salem (873 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Chemeketa Community College - Salem
Chemeketa Community College - Salem (873 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4

Chemeketa Community College - Salem has more employees than the Community colleges offering a wide varie median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.4. 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 1.9 0.6 10 0 0
2023 2.8 0.6 10 5 0
2022 3.3 0.7 14 4 0
2021 2.6 0.7 9 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611210 · OR · Salem

127 Community colleges offering a wide variety of academic and technical training employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 471 employers in Salem, OR · 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 IECC - Workforce Education 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vermillion Community College 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chemeketa Community College, Polk 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Cloud Technical & Community College 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE 350 874 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bright Wood Corporation 879 FTE
STATE-SIZE Oregon Convention Center 863 FTE
STATE-SIZE HILTON PORTLAND DOWNTOWN 863 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oregon State Hospital-Salem Campus 2,036 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : PDX7 1,559 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chemeketa Community College 1,551 FTE
CITY-NEAR Human Service Building ODHS 1,402 FTE
NAT-TCR Stokes Tire & Automotive, Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Swagelok Alfred 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Fire Department 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohio Eagle Distributing, LLC 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE County of Santa Clara Health System, Behavioral Health Services (415) 873 FTE
NAT-SIZE Luis A. Ayala Colon Sucrs., Inc. 873 FTE
NAT-SIZE 9277-190 Breckenridge Resort 873 FTE
NAT-SIZE CRH Healthcare6221 Inc. 873 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.