OC Sheriff's Department · California

OCSD North Operations Division

Santa Ana, CA · ~302 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

OCSD North Operations Division runs at 406% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical OC Sheriff's Department workplace, earning a grade F.

OCSD North Operations Division: 13.0 TCR = 406% of OC Sheriff's Department BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

OCSD North Operations Division safety composite

OCSD North Operations Division scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

OCSD North Operations Division: 8.1 → 16.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 16.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.23× in 2021

OCSD North Operations Division's TCR rose 8.2 from 8.1 in 2018 to 16.3 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Santa Ana, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.0 · 406% of ind

  • DART 16.0 DART
  • RANK #42/97
  • PHOTO Chesapeake Sheriff's…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~302 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chesapeake Sheriff's Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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OCSD North Operations Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows OCSD North Operations Division averages 13.0 TCR (406% of the OC Sheriff's Department BLS benchmark).

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

OCSD North Operations Division TCR series: 2018=8.1 · 2020=14.6 · 2021=16.3 · BLS 3.2

Where OCSD North Operations Division falls in its industry

716 OC Sheriff's Department establishments

Safer than 30% 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 #42 safest of 97 OC Sheriff's Department employers in California.

OCSD North Operations Division (302 employees, TCR 13.0) 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 OCSD North Operations Division
OCSD North Operations Division (302 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

OCSD North Operations Division has more employees than the OC Sheriff's Department 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
2021 16.3 16.0 7 44 0
2020 14.6 14.0 9 38 0
2018 8.1 6.0 18 10 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · CA · Santa Ana

716 OC Sheriff's Department employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 492 employers in Santa Ana, 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 Chesapeake Sheriff's Office 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clark County Sheriff Department 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Denver CO PDC 12.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE MCM Harvesters, Inc 302 FTE
STATE-SIZE BNBuilders Inc 302 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 307 302 FTE
STATE-SIZE OHLUSA 302 FTE
CITY-NEAR Think Together 2,496 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Santa Ana 1,472 FTE
CITY-NEAR Orange County/Los Angeles 1,072 FTE
CITY-NEAR 056937-SANTA ANA CA P&DC 920 FTE
NAT-TCR Phoenix - 27th 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Newport Animal Hospial 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gandy Company 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Amber Ridge Memory Care 13.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Performance New Jersey - 1034 302 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westminster Winter Park 302 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prsohc-015-Pearsall Home Care 302 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maria Regina Residence Inc. 302 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: 2021, 2020, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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