Correctional institutions · California

Ironwood State Prison

Blythe, CA · ~1,070 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
4
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ironwood State Prison runs at 448% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Correctional institutions workplace, earning a grade F.

Ironwood State Prison: 14.3 TCR = 448% of Correctional institutions BLS 3.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ironwood State Prison safety composite

Ironwood State Prison scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 35% 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 4

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%).

Rising injury rate

Ironwood State Prison: 8.4 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 22.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.32× in 2024

Ironwood State Prison's TCR rose 0.7 from 8.4 in 2017 to 9.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 22.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922140 · Blythe, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 14.3 · 448% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #45/73
  • PHOTO Lakeland Correctiona…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 617 inj
  • SIZE ~1,070 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lakeland Correctional Facility (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ironwood State Prison in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ironwood State Prison averages 14.3 TCR (448% of the Correctional institutions BLS benchmark).

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

Ironwood State Prison TCR series: 2017=8.4 · 2018=9.2 · 2019=8.1 · 2020=20.4 · 2021=19.7 · 2022=22.5 · 2023=17.4 · 2024=9.1 · BLS 3.2

Where Ironwood State Prison falls in its industry

482 Correctional institutions establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.8.

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 73 Correctional institutions employers in California.

Ironwood State Prison (1,070 employees, TCR 14.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 5.8 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 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Ironwood State Prison
Ironwood State Prison (1,070 employees, TCR 14.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Ironwood State Prison has more employees than the Correctional institutions median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.8. 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 9.1 4.7 76 25 0
2023 17.4 7.5 96 65 0
2022 22.5 16.8 71 169 1
2021 19.7 13.8 71 139 1
2020 20.4 17.1 72 125 2
2019 8.1 6.1 75 1 0
2018 9.2 5.8 85 2 0
2017 8.4 4.9 71 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922140 · CA · Blythe

482 Correctional institutions employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 33 employers in Blythe, 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 Lakeland Correctional Facility 14.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR COH Water Treatment Plant 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DCYF Green Hill 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Probation JJC 14.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Omni La Costa Resort and Spa 1,070 FTE
STATE-SIZE KS Industries, LLC 1,069 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 372 1,071 FTE
STATE-SIZE Culinary Services of America, Inc. 1,069 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 548 1,679 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHUCKAWALLA VALLEY STATE PRISON 804 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palo Verde Healthcare District 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6962-ABS-0029-0028-03587 112 FTE
NAT-TCR TXW001 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR D1 Alsip Yard 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cambridge Health & Rehabilitation Center 14.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0669 Cincinnati 14.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE DGS Construction, LLC 1,070 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cedar Crest Village 1,070 FTE
NAT-SIZE Novant Health Matthews Medical Center 1,070 FTE
NAT-SIZE McNeill Labor Management, Inc. 1,070 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, 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.