General public administration · California

DCSS Porterville

Porterville, CA · ~34 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

DCSS Porterville runs at 180% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General public administration workplace, earning a grade D.

DCSS Porterville: 5.8 TCR = 180% of General public administration BLS 3.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DCSS Porterville safety composite

DCSS Porterville scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 5.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

−1.0

2017→2024

DCSS Porterville injury rate improved

DCSS Porterville's TCR fell 1.0 from 7.4 in 2017 to 6.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=7.4 · 2018=5.5 · 2020=2.8 · 2021=6.2 · 2022=6.2 · 2023=5.8 · 2024=6.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Porterville, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 180% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #136/256
  • PHOTO Sheriff
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sheriff (0.0 TCR gap)

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DCSS Porterville in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DCSS Porterville averages 5.8 TCR (180% of the General public administration BLS benchmark).

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

DCSS Porterville TCR series: 2017=7.4 · 2018=5.5 · 2020=2.8 · 2021=6.2 · 2022=6.2 · 2023=5.8 · 2024=6.4 · BLS 3.2

Where DCSS Porterville falls in its industry

1,496 General public administration establishments

Safer than 41% 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 #136 safest of 256 General public administration employers in California.

DCSS Porterville (34 employees, TCR 5.8) 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 DCSS Porterville
DCSS Porterville (34 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

DCSS Porterville has fewer 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
2024 6.4 3.2 2 0 0
2023 5.8 2.9 2 0 0
2022 6.2 0.0 2 0 0
2021 6.2 3.1 2 0 0
2020 2.8 0.0 1 0 0
2018 5.5 2.8 2 0 1
2017 7.4 2.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · CA · Porterville

1,496 General public administration employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 147 employers in Porterville, 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 Sheriff 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Chicago Dept of Assets, Information and Services - 900 E. 103rd St 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Chisago City 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Hermosa Beach 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ardent Mills Yuba City 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Filice Farms, L.P. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alexander Ranch, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE MFarms 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 173 1,485 FTE
CITY-NEAR AG 1,379 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ag Star Harvesting Inc 1 1,180 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6021 1,030 FTE
NAT-TCR Memphis 135 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR ES Systems Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Pinnacle HR Group, LLC - Stoney Creek 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lee County Head Start 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Human Services 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milford Public Library 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Recreation Department 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clearwater Composites LLC 34 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.