General public administration · California

City of Palm Springs

Palm Springs, CA · ~459 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.5
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Palm Springs runs at 329% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General public administration workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Palm Springs: 10.5 TCR = 329% of General public administration BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Palm Springs safety composite

City of Palm Springs scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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 Palm Springs: 11.4 → 14.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 14.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.2× in 2020

City of Palm Springs's TCR rose 3.0 from 11.4 in 2017 to 14.4 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Palm Springs, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.5 · 329% of ind

  • DART 12.6 DART
  • RANK #202/256
  • PHOTO Siskiyou County Prob…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 161 inj
  • SIZE ~459 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Siskiyou County Probation (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Palm Springs in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Palm Springs averages 10.5 TCR (329% of the General public administration BLS benchmark).

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

City of Palm Springs TCR series: 2017=11.4 · 2018=9.2 · 2019=7.2 · 2020=14.4 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Palm Springs falls in its industry

1,496 General public administration establishments

Safer than 16% 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 #202 safest of 256 General public administration employers in California.

City of Palm Springs (459 employees, TCR 10.5) 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 Palm Springs
City of Palm Springs (459 employees, TCR 10.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

City of Palm Springs has more employees than the General public administration 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 14.4 12.6 45 20 0
2019 7.2 6.2 34 1 0
2018 9.2 6.7 39 2 0
2017 11.4 4.9 43 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · CA · Palm Springs

1,496 General public administration employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 114 employers in Palm 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 Siskiyou County Probation 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Everett 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Park Department 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of White Bear Lake - Sports Center 10.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Level 5, Inc. 459 FTE
STATE-SIZE PacSci EMC Hollister 459 FTE
STATE-SIZE Howmet Global Fastening Systems Inc 459 FTE
STATE-SIZE YYK Enterprises Operations, LLC 459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Desert Regional Medical Center 2,585 FTE
CITY-NEAR 694 DESERT REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,399 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-694 2,273 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1832 426 FTE
NAT-TCR Polson Health & Rehabilitation 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Residences of Lecanto 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Day Habilitation Program 1 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Ofa 14 10.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Regal Beloit America, Inc - Wausau 459 FTE
NAT-SIZE Illinois 459 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tower Electric, Inc. 459 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jostens - Broadway 459 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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