School districts, elementary or secondary · California

Oakland Unified School District

Oakland, CA · ~4,473 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Oakland Unified School District runs at 331% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical School districts, elementary or secondary workplace, earning a grade F.

Oakland Unified School District: 4.6 TCR = 331% of School districts, elementary or secondary BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Oakland Unified School District safety composite

Oakland Unified School District scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Oakland Unified School District: 4.6 → 7146.7 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 7146.7 TCR · DART/TCR 668.11× in 2020

Oakland Unified School District's TCR rose 7142.0 from 4.6 in 2019 to 7146.7 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 668.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Oakland, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 4.6 · 331% of ind

  • DART 3093.3 DART
  • RANK #22/63
  • PHOTO Ruth Chaffee School
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 259 inj
  • SIZE ~4,473 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ruth Chaffee School (0.0 TCR gap)

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Oakland Unified School District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Oakland Unified School District averages 4.6 TCR (331% of the School districts, elementary or secondary BLS benchmark).

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

Oakland Unified School District TCR series: 2019=4.6 · 2020=7146.7 · BLS 1.4

Where Oakland Unified School District falls in its industry

3,374 School districts, elementary o establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #22 safest of 63 School districts, elementary o employers in California.

Oakland Unified School District (4,473 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Oakland Unified School District
Oakland Unified School District (4,473 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Oakland Unified School District has more employees than the School districts, elementary or secondar median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2020 7146.7 3093.3 64 3 0
2019 4.6 2.3 195 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · CA · Oakland

3,374 School districts, elementary or secondary employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 458 employers in Oakland, 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 Ruth Chaffee School 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pike Lake Education Center 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR TCAAP 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ISD 742 Riverwoods 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE OSI Staffing Inc. 4,494 FTE
STATE-SIZE FCC Victorville 4,442 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-Solmetric 4,525 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-06 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02120301 4,408 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0206-02620301 3,210 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2032-02620301 2,922 FTE
CITY-NEAR 02820301 OAKLAND HOSPITAL LOW RISE OLD TOWER 2,910 FTE
NAT-TCR Andalusia Plant 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 7057-Enphg-Highmark Camp Hill 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Van Wert Contract Packaging 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR ES StLouis 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Thomson Reuters - Eagan 4,474 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hii - Technical Solutions Division 4,475 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rahway, NJ Facility 4,475 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northwestern Memorial HealthCare 4,470 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.