Correctional institutions · California

Pelican Bay State Prison

Crescent City, CA · ~1,252 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Pelican Bay State Prison runs at 430% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Correctional institutions workplace, earning a grade F.

Pelican Bay State Prison: 13.8 TCR = 430% of Correctional institutions BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pelican Bay State Prison safety composite

Pelican Bay State Prison scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 5%), 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

10/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 5% 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

Pelican Bay State Prison: 9.4 → 25.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 25.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2022

Pelican Bay State Prison's TCR rose 15.7 from 9.4 in 2017 to 25.1 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922140 · Crescent City, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 13.8 · 430% of ind

  • DART 16.3 DART
  • RANK #40/73
  • PHOTO Garner Correctional …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 517 inj
  • SIZE ~1,252 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Garner Correctional Institution (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pelican Bay State Prison in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pelican Bay State Prison averages 13.8 TCR (430% of the Correctional institutions BLS benchmark).

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

Pelican Bay State Prison TCR series: 2017=9.4 · 2018=8.5 · 2019=12 · 2022=25.1 · BLS 3.2

Where Pelican Bay State Prison falls in its industry

482 Correctional institutions establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #40 safest of 73 Correctional institutions employers in California.

Pelican Bay State Prison (1,252 employees, TCR 13.8) 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 Pelican Bay State Prison
Pelican Bay State Prison (1,252 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 240 employees and a TCR of 5.8

Pelican Bay State Prison has more employees than the Correctional institutions 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
2022 25.1 16.3 108 147 0
2019 12.0 5.1 172 0 1
2018 8.5 2.6 117 0 0
2017 9.4 3.8 120 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922140 · CA · Crescent City

482 Correctional institutions employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 22 employers in Crescent City, 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 Garner Correctional Institution 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MCF-Rush City 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mount Pleasant Correctional Facility 13.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR California City Correctional Facility 13.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE WBCT Terminal 1,252 FTE
STATE-SIZE High Desert State Prison - 934 1,251 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fitbit, Inc. 1,254 FTE
STATE-SIZE KARL STORZ Endoscopy-America, Inc. - El Segundo 1,254 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Coast Hospital (410-010) 400 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Coast Hospital (30839) 375 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1910 281 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1910 263 FTE
NAT-TCR 566872-Rac-West Racine Sta 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 479501-MEM-BARTLETT 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Kingwood Skilled Nursing and Therapy 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Golden's Foundry & Machine Cordele 13.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Medtronic MECC 1,252 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marymount Hospital 1,252 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elmhurst Community Unit School 205 1,252 FTE
NAT-SIZE H.M. Richards, Inc. 1,252 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: 2022, 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.