Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction · California

High Dessert Support Services

Fort Irwin, CA · ~184 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

High Dessert Support Services runs at 6% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction workplace, earning a grade A.

High Dessert Support Services: 0.2 TCR = 6% of Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

High Dessert Support Services safety composite

High Dessert Support Services scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 94% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 94% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

High Dessert Support Services: 0.0 → 0.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 0.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

High Dessert Support Services's TCR rose 0.5 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.5 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237990 · Fort Irwin, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.2 · 6% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/92
  • PHOTO Formosa Plastics Cor…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~184 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Formosa Plastics Corporation Point Comfort TX (0.0 TCR gap)

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High Dessert Support Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows High Dessert Support Services averages 0.2 TCR (6% of the Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction BLS benchmark).

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

High Dessert Support Services TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=0.5 · BLS 2.8

Where High Dessert Support Services falls in its industry

932 Other Heavy and Civil Engineer establishments

Safer than 94% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 92 Other Heavy and Civil Engineer employers in California.

High Dessert Support Services (184 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate High Dessert Support Services
High Dessert Support Services (184 employees, TCR 0.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.5

High Dessert Support Services has more employees than the Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Constr median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2019 0.5 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237990 · CA · Fort Irwin

932 Other Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 6 employers in Fort Irwin, 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 Formosa Plastics Corporation Point Comfort TX 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Turner at Pipe Fabrication Baton Rouge LA 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Turner at Shell Chemical LP Deer Park TX 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Turner at Shell Chemical LP Geismar LA 0.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE PEREGRINA INC. 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steele Valley 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE UFP Thornton llc. 184 FTE
STATE-SIZE Abel Brenes Aparicio 184 FTE
CITY-NEAR DI - NTC Ft Irwin 638 FTE
CITY-NEAR High Dessert Support Services JV Bridge Ft. Irwin CP 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Fort Irwin_CA 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jacobs - FORT IRWIN - OMI 35 FTE
NAT-TCR Fort Smith - 5713 RS Boreham Jr Street 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Veeder-Root (Simsbury) 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR IT 0.2 TCR
NAT-TCR GA 2605 Circle 75 Pkwy SE 0.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Frontier Spinning Mills, Inc Plant 3 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE Overhead Door of Kansas City 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE US IL Chicago Plant 184 FTE
NAT-SIZE 281 - Evansville 184 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.