Employer · California

City of Desert Hot Springs

Desert Hot Springs, CA · ~87 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Desert Hot Springs runs at 563% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Desert Hot Springs: 18.0 TCR = 563% of industry BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Desert Hot Springs safety composite

City of Desert Hot Springs scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

Rising injury rate

City of Desert Hot Springs: 16.6 → 3000000.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 3000000.0 TCR · DART/TCR 33314.83× in 2023

City of Desert Hot Springs's TCR rose 2999983.4 from 16.6 in 2017 to 3000000.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 33314.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Desert Hot Springs, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.0 · 563% of ind

  • DART 600000.0 DART
  • RANK #244/256
  • PHOTO Police Department
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 56 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Desert Hot Springs in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Desert Hot Springs averages 18.0 TCR (563% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

City of Desert Hot Springs TCR series: 2017=16.6 · 2018=18.3 · 2020=19.1 · 2023=3000000 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Desert Hot Springs falls in its industry

1,496 industry establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #244 safest of 256 industry employers in California.

City of Desert Hot Springs (87 employees, TCR 18.0) 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 Desert Hot Springs
City of Desert Hot Springs (87 employees, TCR 18.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

City of Desert Hot Springs has fewer 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
2023 3000000.0 600000.0 15 0 0
2020 19.1 4.8 16 0 0
2018 18.3 7.9 14 0 0
2017 16.6 6.0 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · CA · Desert Hot Springs

1,496 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 15 employers in Desert Hot Springs, 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 Police Department 18.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Carlsbad 18.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Norwich: Public Works 18.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR PUBLIC WORKS 18.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Martinelli Vineyard Management, Inc 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE farming 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE A. SAMBADO & SON INC 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Agromillora California 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR Med for America Inc. 516 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gold Flora Corp 131 FTE
CITY-NEAR JRNL Two Bunch Palms LLC 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR Journal Two Bunch Palms 108 FTE
NAT-TCR Home Health Care Professionals- Elmore 18.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 416572-Phi-Kingsessing Sta 18.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 216571-Nor-Algiers Sta a 18.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 046411-Nlr-Rose City Sta 18.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE S & H Steel Co. 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Zircoa 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Duraflame East, LLC 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Custom Printing Ii Ltd 87 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: 2023, 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.