Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) · California

City of Palmdale

Palmdale, CA · ~712 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Palmdale runs at 185% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) workplace, earning a grade D.

City of Palmdale: 5.9 TCR = 185% of Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Palmdale safety composite

City of Palmdale scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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).

D

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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 Palmdale: 5.1 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.85× in 2019

City of Palmdale's TCR rose 1.6 from 5.1 in 2017 to 6.7 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921110 · Palmdale, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 185% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #111/149
  • PHOTO City of Lincoln
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~712 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Lincoln (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Palmdale in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Palmdale averages 5.9 TCR (185% of the Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) BLS benchmark).

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

City of Palmdale TCR series: 2017=5.1 · 2019=6.7 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Palmdale falls in its industry

1,010 Executive offices, federal, st establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #111 safest of 149 Executive offices, federal, st employers in California.

City of Palmdale (712 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Palmdale
City of Palmdale (712 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8

City of Palmdale has more employees than the Executive offices, federal, state, and l median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2019 6.7 5.0 18 2 0
2017 5.1 2.9 11 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921110 · CA · Palmdale

1,010 Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 135 employers in Palmdale, 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 Lincoln 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Springfield 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Forest Park 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR County of Pulaski 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Strawberry Harvest 711 FTE
STATE-SIZE CUCAMONGA PLANT 714 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sutter Valley Hospitals (30290) 714 FTE
STATE-SIZE Darensberries, LLC 709 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGAS-A502 5,323 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-06 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation Palmdale Campus (1513) 3,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 612 2,127 FTE
NAT-TCR IA Division R.S. Hanline 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Scenic Ridge Company - #1 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Mid Island Die Cutting 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR KWF GA Athens HomeStore 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE MillerCoors Milwaukee Brewery 712 FTE
NAT-SIZE LRM Encinal 712 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZECO 712 FTE
NAT-SIZE BRHMALDC - AT&T Mobility Services LLC 712 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: 2019, 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.