Employer · California

City of Costa Mesa

Costa Mesa, CA · ~670 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

City of Costa Mesa runs at 272% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Costa Mesa: 8.7 TCR = 272% of industry BLS 3.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Costa Mesa safety composite

City of Costa Mesa scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 38% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

−4.5

2017→2024

City of Costa Mesa injury rate improved

City of Costa Mesa's TCR fell 4.5 from 11.7 in 2017 to 7.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=11.7 · 2018=8.4 · 2019=10.3 · 2020=7.4 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=7.5 · 2023=9.8 · 2024=7.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Costa Mesa, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.7 · 272% of ind

  • DART 2.8 DART
  • RANK #177/256
  • PHOTO State of Indiana Dep…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 374 inj
  • SIZE ~670 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: State of Indiana Department of Workforce Development (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Costa Mesa in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Costa Mesa averages 8.7 TCR (272% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

City of Costa Mesa TCR series: 2017=11.7 · 2018=8.4 · 2019=10.3 · 2020=7.4 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=7.5 · 2023=9.8 · 2024=7.2 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Costa Mesa falls in its industry

1,496 industry establishments

Safer than 25% 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 #177 safest of 256 industry employers in California.

City of Costa Mesa (670 employees, TCR 8.7) 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 City of Costa Mesa
City of Costa Mesa (670 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

City of Costa Mesa has more employees than the industry 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 7.2 2.8 40 7 0
2023 9.8 3.5 59 2 0
2022 7.5 3.2 43 2 0
2021 7.3 3.8 36 4 0
2020 7.4 4.4 37 3 0
2019 10.3 6.1 51 10 0
2018 8.4 4.1 45 4 1
2017 11.7 5.7 63 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · CA · Costa Mesa

1,496 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 185 employers in Costa Mesa, 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 State of Indiana Department of Workforce Development 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Austin, Minnesota 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Minneapolis - Water Dept 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Allen Park 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cepheid Lodi 670 FTE
STATE-SIZE Disney Human Resources Services Co., LLC 670 FTE
STATE-SIZE casino 670 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hilltown Packing Co., Inc.-CA 671 FTE
CITY-NEAR PACIFIC AMPHITHEATER 863 FTE
CITY-NEAR OC Fair & Event Center 861 FTE
CITY-NEAR PACWEST Security Services 567 FTE
CITY-NEAR SFFIT Ventures LLC 504 FTE
NAT-TCR Russellville DC 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Anna Reynolds School 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR A-1 Logging, Inc. 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Longview TX Distribution 670 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commercial Contracting Corporation 670 FTE
NAT-SIZE Romeoville 670 FTE
NAT-SIZE Franklin 50 670 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, 2020, 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.