Child welfare services · California

Optimist Palmdale

Palmdale, CA · ~45 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Optimist Palmdale runs at 46% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Child welfare services workplace, earning a grade A.

Optimist Palmdale: 1.8 TCR = 46% of Child welfare services BLS 3.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Optimist Palmdale safety composite

Optimist Palmdale scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

Optimist Palmdale: 5.0 → 5000.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5000.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2840.91× in 2024

Optimist Palmdale's TCR rose 4995.0 from 5.0 in 2017 to 5000.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2840.91× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 624110 · Palmdale, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.8 · 46% of ind

  • DART 5000.0 DART
  • RANK #9/53
  • PHOTO KS - Olathe
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KS - Olathe (0.0 TCR gap)

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Optimist Palmdale in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Optimist Palmdale averages 1.8 TCR (46% of the Child welfare services BLS benchmark).

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

Optimist Palmdale TCR series: 2017=5 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=5000 · BLS 3.8

Where Optimist Palmdale falls in its industry

328 Child welfare services establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 53 Child welfare services employers in California.

Optimist Palmdale (45 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Optimist Palmdale
Optimist Palmdale (45 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Optimist Palmdale has fewer employees than the Child welfare services median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 5000.0 5000.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 3.8 3.8 1 0 0
2017 5.0 5.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

624110 · CA · Palmdale

328 Child welfare services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 135 employers in Palmdale, 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 KS - Olathe 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WV - Beckley 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR OFFICE CAHSElmwood3705 Harrisburg 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR HWSC Prince George 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Salinas Transplant Company 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terra Firma Farm 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donald Beeman Farm 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berry Mist Farms, LP 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGAS-A502 5,323 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-06 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation Palmdale Campus (1513) 3,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 612 2,127 FTE
NAT-TCR Bearse Manufacturing Co 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Lowes Foods #266 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sharon Healthcare Elms 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Beverage Company, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chas. Herdrich 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eastern Boats Inc 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE PQ Controls, Inc 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Star Roofing 45 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.