General services departments, government · California

City of South San Francisco

South San Francisco, CA · ~936 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of South San Francisco runs at 435% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General services departments, government workplace, earning a grade F.

City of South San Francisco: 13.9 TCR = 435% of General services departments, government BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of South San Francisco safety composite

City of South San Francisco scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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 South San Francisco: 15.4 → 21.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 21.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.18× in 2022

City of South San Francisco's TCR rose 6.4 from 15.4 in 2018 to 21.8 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · South San Francisco, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.9 · 435% of ind

  • DART 16.4 DART
  • RANK #226/256
  • PHOTO Jackson County Roads
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 179 inj
  • SIZE ~936 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jackson County Roads (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of South San Francisco in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of South San Francisco averages 13.9 TCR (435% of the General services departments, government BLS benchmark).

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

City of South San Francisco TCR series: 2018=15.4 · 2019=7.8 · 2020=10.8 · 2022=21.8 · BLS 3.2

Where City of South San Francisco falls in its industry

1,496 General services departments, establishments

Safer than 9% 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 #226 safest of 256 General services departments, employers in California.

City of South San Francisco (936 employees, TCR 13.9) 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 South San Francisco
City of South San Francisco (936 employees, TCR 13.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

City of South San Francisco has more employees than the General services departments, government 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
2022 21.8 16.4 42 71 0
2020 10.8 9.0 40 15 0
2019 7.8 2.2 36 7 0
2018 15.4 9.3 61 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · CA · South San Francisco

1,496 General services departments, government employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 136 employers in South San Francisco, 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 Jackson County Roads 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Carol Stream 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Downey 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR EGV Public Works Dept. 14.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Superior Ag Services, Inc. 936 FTE
STATE-SIZE San Diego Transit Corp. 936 FTE
STATE-SIZE Disney Consumer Products Games Publishing 936 FTE
STATE-SIZE St. Mary's Medical Center 936 FTE
CITY-NEAR Genentech SSF 13,259 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02120951 1,497 FTE
CITY-NEAR Aspiranet 1,182 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0206-02620951 1,178 FTE
NAT-TCR Carpentry Contractors Company 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Abbington Rehab and Nursing Center 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 484700-Killeen Po 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 482640-Duncanville Po 13.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vista Medical Center 936 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2904-ASM-NY 936 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allied Electronics 936 FTE
NAT-SIZE 9973 - Sat - Csoc 936 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.