Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · California

Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Metropolitan

Los Angeles, CA · ~330 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Metropolitan runs at 402% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade F.

Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Metropolitan: 12.8 TCR = 402% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Metropolitan safety composite

Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Metropolitan scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Metropolitan: 11.3 → 14.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 16.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.54× in 2024

Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Metropolitan's TCR rose 3.1 from 11.3 in 2017 to 14.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 16.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Los Angeles, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.8 · 402% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK #41/97
  • PHOTO POLICE PROTECTION
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 52 inj
  • SIZE ~330 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: POLICE PROTECTION (0.0 TCR gap)

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Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Metropolitan in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Metropolitan averages 12.8 TCR (402% of the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS benchmark).

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

Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Metropolitan TCR series: 2017=11.3 · 2019=9.4 · 2020=16.3 · 2024=14.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Metropolitan falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 97 Police departments (except Ame employers in California.

Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Metropolitan (330 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Metropolitan
Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Metropolitan (330 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Metropolitan has more employees than the Police departments (except American Indi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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
2024 14.4 6.9 13 31 0
2020 16.3 11.9 5 40 0
2019 9.4 6.0 7 23 0
2017 11.3 8.8 27 13 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · CA · Los Angeles

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) 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 POLICE PROTECTION 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vancouver Police Dept West 12.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR TOWN OF FOREST CITY - POLICE DEPARTMENT 12.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Aera Belridge 330 FTE
STATE-SIZE System Pavers, LLC 330 FTE
STATE-SIZE F.Gavina & Sons Inc. 330 FTE
STATE-SIZE LA O'Neil Data Solutions, LLC 330 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 Pepe Ganga Hatillo 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR TRS Heating and Air Conditioning INC 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Jarrod Smart Construction, Co. 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Public Works 12.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carl Robinson Correctional Institution 330 FTE
NAT-SIZE Randall Road Plant 330 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hospital Pediatrico Universitario 330 FTE
NAT-SIZE River North Correctional Center 330 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, 2020, 2019, 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.