City and town managers' offices · California

City of Gardena

Gardena, CA · ~493 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.4
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

City of Gardena runs at 449% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical City and town managers' offices workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Gardena: 14.4 TCR = 449% of City and town managers' offices BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Gardena safety composite

City of Gardena scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8% 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

6/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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%).

Rising injury rate

City of Gardena: 11.3 → 21.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 21.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.72× in 2020

City of Gardena's TCR rose 10.1 from 11.3 in 2017 to 21.4 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.72× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 14.4 · 449% of ind

  • DART 10.4 DART
  • RANK #228/256
  • PHOTO City of Portage - Pa…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 186 inj
  • SIZE ~493 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Portage - Parks & Recreation and Parks & Streets Maintenance Division (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Gardena in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Gardena averages 14.4 TCR (449% of the City and town managers' offices BLS benchmark).

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

City of Gardena TCR series: 2017=11.3 · 2018=11.7 · 2019=13.1 · 2020=21.4 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Gardena falls in its industry

1,496 City and town managers' office 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 #228 safest of 256 City and town managers' office employers in California.

City of Gardena (493 employees, TCR 14.4) 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 Gardena
City of Gardena (493 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

City of Gardena has more employees than the City and town managers' offices 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
2020 21.4 10.4 48 14 0
2019 13.1 6.1 50 4 0
2018 11.7 6.5 41 6 1
2017 11.3 5.0 47 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · CA · Gardena

1,496 City and town managers' offices employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 223 employers in Gardena, 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 City of Portage - Parks & Recreation and Parks & Streets Maintenance Division 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Parks and Recreation 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Branford Parks and Recreation 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tama County Highway Department 14.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE American Woodmark 493 FTE
STATE-SIZE Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority - Chaboya Division 493 FTE
STATE-SIZE Morley Builders Inc 494 FTE
STATE-SIZE HF Pleasanton CA 492 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 602 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ono-030 909 FTE
CITY-NEAR GARDENA HUB (CAGAR) 809 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAGAR - GARDENA HUB 794 FTE
NAT-TCR Carnes Frames Inc. - Cox Street Location 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Xanitos EVS at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Ofa 32 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR GEG - Ground Ops 14.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lima Refinery 493 FTE
NAT-SIZE Boc (Bsa) 493 FTE
NAT-SIZE AGC Automotive Glass Plant 493 FTE
NAT-SIZE Multi-Craft Contractors - Springdale 493 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.