Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · California

City of South San Francisco - Police Department

South San Francisco, CA · ~126 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of South San Francisco - Police Department runs at 426% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade F.

City of South San Francisco - Police Department: 13.6 TCR = 426% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of South San Francisco - Police Department safety composite

City of South San Francisco - Police Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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)
F 13.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−2.0

2023→2024

City of South San Francisco - Police Department injury rate improved

City of South San Francisco - Police Department's TCR fell 2.0 from 14.6 in 2023 to 12.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=14.6 · 2024=12.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · South San Francisco, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.6 · 426% of ind

  • DART 5.8 DART
  • RANK #45/97
  • PHOTO Town of Guilford Pol…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~126 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Town of Guilford Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of South San Francisco - Police Department 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 - Police Department averages 13.6 TCR (426% of the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS benchmark).

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

City of South San Francisco - Police Department TCR series: 2023=14.6 · 2024=12.6 · BLS 3.2

Where City of South San Francisco - Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #45 safest of 97 Police departments (except Ame employers in California.

City of South San Francisco - Police Department (126 employees, TCR 13.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate City of South San Francisco - Police Department
City of South San Francisco - Police Department (126 employees, TCR 13.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

City of South San Francisco - Police Department has more employees than the Police departments (except American Indi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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 12.6 5.8 13 0 0
2023 14.6 9.1 11 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · CA · South San Francisco

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) 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 Town of Guilford Police Department 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Office of Field Operations - San Diego 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Woodbury - Public Safety - Police 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Station 13.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Blosser Ranch 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE T&A Onions - Salinas - Harvest 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anthony F Cubre Jr 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Shore Greenhouses, Inc. 126 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 Nyppd - Painted Post Center 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR UMMC West Bank North Building 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Embassy suites Milwaukee Brookfield 13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Gallop Delivery LLC 13.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE GVEC Gonzales 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mountain Ridge Metals 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Washington Penn - Arden 126 FTE
NAT-SIZE Txsmr - San Marcos 126 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.