Auditor's offices, government · California

City of Vernon

Vernon, CA · ~238 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Vernon runs at 280% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Auditor's offices, government workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Vernon: 9.0 TCR = 280% of Auditor's offices, government BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Vernon safety composite

City of Vernon scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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 Vernon: 8.7 → 9.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2024

City of Vernon's TCR rose 0.7 from 8.7 in 2018 to 9.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 280% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #178/256
  • PHOTO Sherburne County Pub…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 93 inj
  • SIZE ~238 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sherburne County Public Works - Highway Maintenance (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Vernon in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Vernon averages 9.0 TCR (280% of the Auditor's offices, government BLS benchmark).

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

City of Vernon TCR series: 2018=8.7 · 2019=9 · 2020=8.3 · 2023=9.4 · 2024=9.4 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Vernon falls in its industry

1,496 Auditor's offices, government establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #178 safest of 256 Auditor's offices, government employers in California.

City of Vernon (238 employees, TCR 9.0) 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 Vernon
City of Vernon (238 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

City of Vernon has more employees than the Auditor's offices, 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
2024 9.4 7.8 16 2 0
2023 9.4 7.9 17 1 0
2020 8.3 5.2 18 3 0
2019 9.0 4.5 22 4 0
2018 8.7 5.0 20 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · CA · Vernon

1,496 Auditor's offices, government employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 146 employers in Vernon, 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 Sherburne County Public Works - Highway Maintenance 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Services 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Sandstone 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Chicago Dept of Transportation - 1501 W Pershing 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Panoche Creek Packing 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guerrero Labor Contractor 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enphase Energy Fremont, CA 238 FTE
STATE-SIZE Division #9 238 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods, Inc. - Vernon, CA 1,633 FTE
CITY-NEAR GRANDE VISTA (CAGVS) 1,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAGVS - GRANDE VISTA 1,215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Foods - Vernon 984 FTE
NAT-TCR Azphx - Phoenix Air Gateway 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR BVL Merchants Division 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hamilton 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Humble 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mnsha - Shakopee 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE Txacc - Accounting 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ironwood Heavy Highway LLC 238 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marion Correctional Treatment Center 238 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, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.