Employer · California

City of Garden Grove

Garden Grove, CA · ~643 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Garden Grove runs at 269% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Garden Grove: 8.6 TCR = 269% of industry BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Garden Grove safety composite

City of Garden Grove scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

−3.3

2021→2024

City of Garden Grove injury rate improved

City of Garden Grove's TCR fell 3.3 from 10.8 in 2021 to 7.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=10.8 · 2022=8.6 · 2023=7.5 · 2024=7.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Garden Grove, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 269% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #175/256
  • PHOTO St. Charles Public W…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 202 inj
  • SIZE ~643 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: St. Charles Public Works Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Garden Grove in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Garden Grove averages 8.6 TCR (269% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

City of Garden Grove TCR series: 2021=10.8 · 2022=8.6 · 2023=7.5 · 2024=7.5 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Garden Grove 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 #175 safest of 256 industry employers in California.

City of Garden Grove (643 employees, TCR 8.6) 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 Garden Grove
City of Garden Grove (643 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

City of Garden Grove 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 7.5 4.4 50 0 0
2023 7.5 4.8 50 1 0
2022 8.6 4.4 50 10 0
2021 10.8 7.6 52 18 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · CA · Garden Grove

1,496 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 145 employers in Garden Grove, 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 St. Charles Public Works Department 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Public Works 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Blaine City Hall/Police Department 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Richland 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Santos Montemayor FLC, Inc 643 FTE
STATE-SIZE Decker Electric 643 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clark Pacific- Woodland Plant 643 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2886 643 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southland Industries 6,124 FTE
CITY-NEAR City Hall 677 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Wolf Lodge 649 FTE
CITY-NEAR King Janitorial Equipment Services 645 FTE
NAT-TCR HCA Florida Putnam Hospital 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR D. Beyer Associates, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Eastman Chemical 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR North America : Ludlow 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Piedmont Cartersville Medical Center 643 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cape Canaveral Hospital 643 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lockheed Martin Corporation US PA King of Prussia Geerdes (4055) 643 FTE
NAT-SIZE Erlanger Wild Flavors 643 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.