General Construction · California
Orange County/Los Angeles
Santa Ana, CA · ~1,072 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 2.4
- Avg TCR
- 2.9
- Industry avg
- 1
- Fatality
The verdict
Orange County/Los Angeles runs at 82% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General Construction workplace, earning a grade C.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 2.4
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 2.9
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 1
- worker fatalities on record
Grade compares Orange County/Los Angeles's OSHA Total Case Rate of 2.4 to the General Construction BLS benchmark of 2.9 (82% of benchmark) across 3 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.
Injury rate over time
Orange County/Los Angeles's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.9 industry benchmark.
Where Orange County/Los Angeles falls in its industry
6,114 General Construction establishmentsSafer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.
Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #436 safest of 683 General Construction employers in California.
Trend analysis for Orange County/Los Angeles
Between 2020 and 2022, Orange County/Los Angeles's Total Case Rate improved from 2.4 to 1.9 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 20% decrease across 2 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2022, at a TCR of 1.9, while 2021 saw the highest rate, at 2.8, a spread of 0.9 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 3 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.
Summed across those 3 reporting years, Orange County/Los Angeles recorded 53 total injuries and illnesses and 1 fatality. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 3-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 53 injuries, 11 illnesses, and 1 fatality shown on this page for Orange County/Los Angeles are sourced from its own 3 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 236220 - General Construction.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2022)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
14 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 1,547,397 hours worked = 1.81 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Orange County/Los Angeles (this establishment) | 2.39 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 3-year avg |
| Addition, alteration and renovation general contractors, commercial and institutional building industry avg | 2.90 | BLS IIF, NAICS 236220 |
| California state avg (all industries) | 5.64 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Orange County/Los Angeles to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2022: 16 reportable incidents · 15 injuries, 0 illnesses, 1 fatality - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 23 reportable incidents · 16 injuries, 7 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 26 reportable incidents · 22 injuries, 4 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.9 | 1.8 | 15 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2.8 | 1.7 | 16 | 7 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2.4 | 1.5 | 22 | 4 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Orange County/Los Angeles's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its General Construction peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.
- At 82% of the General Construction benchmark, Orange County/Los Angeles reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider General Construction sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.