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

Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Valley

West Hills, CA · ~257 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Valley runs at 283% 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 Valley: 9.0 TCR = 283% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Valley safety composite

Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Valley scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 51%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 9.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.4

2017→2024

Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Valley injury rate improved

Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Valley's TCR fell 3.4 from 8.8 in 2017 to 5.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.8 · 2019=10.7 · 2020=11.2 · 2024=5.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · West Hills, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 283% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #23/97
  • PHOTO Police Department
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~257 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Valley 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 Valley averages 9.0 TCR (283% 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 Valley TCR series: 2017=8.8 · 2019=10.7 · 2020=11.2 · 2024=5.5 · BLS 3.2

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

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 52% 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 #23 safest of 97 Police departments (except Ame employers in California.

Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Valley (257 employees, TCR 9.0) 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 Valley
Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Valley (257 employees, TCR 9.0) 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 Valley has more employees than the Police departments (except American Indi median and a lower 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 5.5 4.2 1 12 0
2020 11.2 7.9 8 19 0
2019 10.7 6.4 5 20 0
2017 8.8 5.4 14 9 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · CA · West Hills

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 · 31 employers in West Hills, 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 Department 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Office of Field Operations - El Paso 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR TCSO Pixley Sub-Station 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Premier Mushrooms 257 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kern Labor Contracting, Inc 257 FTE
STATE-SIZE KEARNY - 1 257 FTE
STATE-SIZE TRL Systems, Inc. 257 FTE
CITY-NEAR West Hills Hospital & Medical Center 1,199 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5152 272 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5152 241 FTE
CITY-NEAR Topanga Terrace Rehabilitation and Subacute 200 FTE
NAT-TCR Littfin Truss Co 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Younger Brothers Door & Trim LLC 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Wakulla County Schools 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR BOS 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Eastern Metal Supply Lake Worth 257 FTE
NAT-SIZE DIS-TRAN Steel 257 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plover 257 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ogden 257 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.