Engineering services · California

Department of Public Works, Bureau of Engineering, Public Works Building

Los Angeles, CA · ~559 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.2
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Department of Public Works, Bureau of Engineering, Public Works Building runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Engineering services workplace, earning a grade A.

Department of Public Works, Bureau of Engineering, Public Works Building: 0.2 TCR = 48% of Engineering services BLS 0.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Department of Public Works, Bureau of Engineering, Public Works Building safety composite

Department of Public Works, Bureau of Engineering, Public Works Building scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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%).

Department of Public Works, Bureau of Engineering, Public Works Building held a steady TCR band

Department of Public Works, Bureau of Engineering, Public Works Building's TCR held near 0.3 from 0.5 in 2017 to 0.2 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 0.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.5 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541330 · Los Angeles, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.2 · 48% of ind

  • DART 0.2 DART
  • RANK #17/83
  • PHOTO ES Pullman WA
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~559 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ES Pullman WA (0.0 TCR gap)

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Department of Public Works, Bureau of Engineering, Public Works Building in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Department of Public Works, Bureau of Engineering, Public Works Building averages 0.2 TCR (48% of the Engineering services BLS benchmark).

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

Department of Public Works, Bureau of Engineering, Public Works Building TCR series: 2017=0.5 · 2018=0 · 2019=0.2 · BLS 0.5

Where Department of Public Works, Bureau of Engineering, Public Works Building falls in its industry

690 Engineering services establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 83 Engineering services employers in California.

Department of Public Works, Bureau of Engineering, Public Works Building (559 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 0.9 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Department of Public Works, Bureau of Engineering, Public Works Building
Department of Public Works, Bureau of Engineering, Public Works Building (559 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 0.9

Department of Public Works, Bureau of Engineering, Public Works Building has more employees than the Engineering services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.9. 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 0.2 0.2 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.5 0.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541330 · CA · Los Angeles

690 Engineering services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 2,064 employers in Los Angeles, 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 ES Pullman WA 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lockheed Martin Corporation US CO Schriever AFB Irwin Ave (1445) 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Department of Public Works, Bureau of Street Lighting, Public Works Building 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Engineering 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lisi Aerospace 559 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tahoe Truckee Unified School District 559 FTE
STATE-SIZE Garden Grove Hospital Medical Center 559 FTE
STATE-SIZE Santa Anita Convalescent Hospital & Retirement Center 559 FTE
CITY-NEAR Live Nation Worldwide, Inc. 50,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Los Angeles 40,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR LADWP 11,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles Department of Water and Power 10,346 FTE
NAT-TCR Sterilite Corporation - Home office 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Victory Packaging Corporate 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR CITGO OKC Lube Plant 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR AMEREN MISSOURI - Callaway Plant 0.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Goodrich ES - ISR Systems 559 FTE
NAT-SIZE NavyArmy Community Credit Union 559 FTE
NAT-SIZE 266361-Minn-Saint Paul Ndc 559 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZNRC 559 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, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.