Employer · California

Otay Mesa Detention Center

San Ysidro, CA · ~351 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Otay Mesa Detention Center runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade D.

Otay Mesa Detention Center: 4.2 TCR = 130% of industry BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Otay Mesa Detention Center safety composite

Otay Mesa Detention Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 54%), 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 54% 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

−2.5

2016→2019

Otay Mesa Detention Center injury rate improved

Otay Mesa Detention Center's TCR fell 2.5 from 3.3 in 2016 to 0.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.4 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=3.3 · 2018=8.4 · 2019=0.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922140 · San Ysidro, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 130% of ind

  • DART 0.3 DART
  • RANK #9/73
  • PHOTO Sussex II State Prison
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 44 inj
  • SIZE ~351 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sussex II State Prison (0.0 TCR gap)

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Otay Mesa Detention Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Otay Mesa Detention Center averages 4.2 TCR (130% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Otay Mesa Detention Center TCR series: 2016=3.3 · 2018=8.4 · 2019=0.7 · BLS 3.2

Where Otay Mesa Detention Center falls in its industry

482 industry establishments

Safer than 64% 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 #9 safest of 73 industry employers in California.

Otay Mesa Detention Center (351 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 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 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Otay Mesa Detention Center
Otay Mesa Detention Center (351 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Otay Mesa Detention Center has more employees than the industry median and a lower 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
2019 0.7 0.3 3 0 0
2018 8.4 5.2 31 0 0
2016 3.3 2.3 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922140 · CA · San Ysidro

482 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 12 employers in San Ysidro, 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 Sussex II State Prison 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kirkland Correctional Institution 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ELOY DETENTION 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR IPI Offenders 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Branch 420 351 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tak Communications CA 351 FTE
STATE-SIZE PCI Bay Area Interior 351 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bumble Bee Seafoods - Santa Fe Springs 351 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ross store 672 131 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ross store 1579 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2050-20500002-937 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2050-937 96 FTE
NAT-TCR 634 - Houston 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Division JV18 - Fort Detrick 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR FL300B 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Richmond - 017 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mayfield - Athens TN 351 FTE
NAT-SIZE Courthouse 351 FTE
NAT-SIZE GDC Technics - AFW 351 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kolpak 351 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: 2019, 2018, 2016. 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.