Children's hospitals, general · California

CHOC Children's Orange

Orange, CA · ~3,693 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
3.7
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CHOC Children's Orange runs at 49% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Children's hospitals, general workplace, earning a grade A.

CHOC Children's Orange: 3.7 TCR = 49% of Children's hospitals, general BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CHOC Children's Orange safety composite

CHOC Children's Orange scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 44%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

2016→2018

CHOC Children's Orange injury rate improved

CHOC Children's Orange's TCR fell 0.7 from 4.1 in 2016 to 3.4 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.1 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.1 · 2018=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Orange, CA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade A · TCR 3.7 · 49% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #110/662
  • PHOTO Kane Community Hospi…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 202 inj
  • SIZE ~3,693 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kane Community Hospital (0.0 TCR gap)

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CHOC Children's Orange in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CHOC Children's Orange averages 3.7 TCR (49% of the Children's hospitals, general BLS benchmark).

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

CHOC Children's Orange TCR series: 2016=4.1 · 2018=3.4 · BLS 7.5

Where CHOC Children's Orange falls in its industry

6,862 Children's hospitals, general establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #110 safest of 662 Children's hospitals, general employers in California.

CHOC Children's Orange (3,693 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate CHOC Children's Orange
CHOC Children's Orange (3,693 employees, TCR 3.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

CHOC Children's Orange has more employees than the Children's hospitals, general median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2018 3.4 2.0 96 0 0
2016 4.1 2.5 106 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · CA · Orange

6,862 Children's hospitals, general employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 319 employers in Orange, 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 Kane Community Hospital 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Penn Highlands DuBois (East) 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Community Memorial Hospital 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clarinda Regional Health Center 3.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Disney Studio Entertainment 3,701 FTE
STATE-SIZE Intuitive 3,670 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1655 3rd St,San Francisco (MB3 3,658 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHOC Children's Orange V2 3,652 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Irvine Health 6,191 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHOC - CHildren's Hospital of Orange County 4,962 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2004-00001460 2,829 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA713 ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL-ORANGE HR 2,817 FTE
NAT-TCR Carry-On Trailer Corporation 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR T.E.A.M. Systems (Brownstown) 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Powdersize, LLC 3.7 TCR
NAT-TCR AER Sales, L. P. 3.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of Tacoma 3,689 FTE
NAT-SIZE St. Luke's Hospital 3,689 FTE
NAT-SIZE UTC Aerospace Systems Major Business Unit 3,700 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arizona Department of Transportation 3,701 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: 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.