Urban transit systems, mixed mode (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) · California

OCTA Garden Grove

Garden Grove, CA · ~443 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.4
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

OCTA Garden Grove runs at 319% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Urban transit systems, mixed mode (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) workplace, earning a grade F.

OCTA Garden Grove: 14.4 TCR = 319% of Urban transit systems, mixed mode (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) BLS 4.5 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

OCTA Garden Grove safety composite

OCTA Garden Grove scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−2.0

2020→2024

OCTA Garden Grove injury rate improved

OCTA Garden Grove's TCR fell 2.0 from 12.5 in 2020 to 10.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 21.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=12.5 · 2021=14.1 · 2022=21.9 · 2023=12.9 · 2024=10.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 485111 · Garden Grove, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 14.4 · 319% of ind

  • DART 9.5 DART
  • RANK #67/75
  • PHOTO 311 COLORADO SPRINGS…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 249 inj
  • SIZE ~443 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 311 COLORADO SPRINGS FIXED ROUTE (0.1 TCR gap)

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OCTA Garden Grove in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows OCTA Garden Grove averages 14.4 TCR (319% of the Urban transit systems, mixed mode (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) BLS benchmark).

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

OCTA Garden Grove TCR series: 2020=12.5 · 2021=14.1 · 2022=21.9 · 2023=12.9 · 2024=10.5 · BLS 4.5

Where OCTA Garden Grove falls in its industry

421 Urban transit systems, mixed m establishments

Safer than 6% 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 #67 safest of 75 Urban transit systems, mixed m employers in California.

OCTA Garden Grove (443 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 217 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate OCTA Garden Grove
OCTA Garden Grove (443 employees, TCR 14.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 217 employees and a TCR of 5.8

OCTA Garden Grove has more employees than the Urban transit systems, mixed mode (e.g., 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 10.5 9.5 44 0 0
2023 12.9 12.3 40 1 0
2022 21.9 19.1 69 8 0
2021 14.1 11.7 48 5 0
2020 12.5 11.2 48 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

485111 · CA · Garden Grove

421 Urban transit systems, mixed mode (e.g., bus, commuter rail, subway combinations) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 145 employers in Garden Grove, 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 311 COLORADO SPRINGS FIXED ROUTE 14.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Mass Transit Management, Inc. 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1953-2224 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4600 RED PURPLE MODERNIZATION 14.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Azcona Harvesting, LLC 443 FTE
STATE-SIZE FLEETWOOD WINDOWS AND DOORS 443 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5425 443 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1660 443 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southland Industries 6,124 FTE
CITY-NEAR City Hall 677 FTE
CITY-NEAR Great Wolf Lodge 649 FTE
CITY-NEAR King Janitorial Equipment Services 645 FTE
NAT-TCR 20026 North Atlantic Distribution 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR OKT003 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Rocket City Trash Pandas 14.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Elizabeth Green School 14.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Citizen Care 443 FTE
NAT-SIZE Industrial Scientific Corporation 443 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - DGR3 443 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Headquarters 443 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.