Employer · California

City of Downey

Downey, CA · ~785 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Downey runs at 437% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Downey: 14.0 TCR = 437% of industry BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Downey safety composite

City of Downey scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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 Downey: 10.8 → 17.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 19.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.81× in 2024

City of Downey's TCR rose 7.0 from 10.8 in 2017 to 17.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 19.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Downey, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 14.0 · 437% of ind

  • DART 11.4 DART
  • RANK #227/256
  • PHOTO Village of Carol Str…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 237 inj
  • SIZE ~785 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Village of Carol Stream (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Downey in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Downey averages 14.0 TCR (437% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

City of Downey TCR series: 2017=10.8 · 2018=19 · 2023=8.4 · 2024=17.8 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Downey falls in its industry

1,496 industry establishments

Safer than 8% 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 #227 safest of 256 industry employers in California.

City of Downey (785 employees, TCR 14.0) 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 02004006008001,000 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Downey
City of Downey (785 employees, TCR 14.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

City of Downey 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 17.8 11.4 60 1 0
2023 8.4 3.2 42 2 0
2018 19.0 4.9 79 33 0
2017 10.8 5.9 56 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · CA · Downey

1,496 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 107 employers in Downey, 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 Village of Carol Stream 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR EGV Public Works Dept. 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jackson County Roads 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of South San Francisco 13.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sutter Bay Hospitals (30571) 785 FTE
STATE-SIZE ABS-0029-0028-06759 FAC-06759-IRVINE-CA 784 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina 786 FTE
STATE-SIZE SF Van Ness 784 FTE
CITY-NEAR OSI Staffing Inc. 4,494 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 202 2,546 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08880101 DOWNEY MEDICAL CENTER 2,323 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-08180101 1,924 FTE
NAT-TCR Associated Grocers of New England Inc 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Agri-Mark, Inc. 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kuusakoski US, LLC 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR The Laurels of Bedford 14.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Flint Metal Center 785 FTE
NAT-SIZE MIDWEST 785 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ready Pac Foods 785 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kansas City Sausage Co., LLC / Pine Ridge Farms 785 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, 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.