Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · California

Police Department

Hayward, CA · ~326 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
27.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Police Department runs at 871% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade F.

Police Department: 27.9 TCR = 871% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Police Department safety composite

Police Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 27.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−20.3

2019→2024

Police Department injury rate improved

Police Department's TCR fell 20.3 from 31.4 in 2019 to 11.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 62.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=31.4 · 2020=62.9 · 2021=45.2 · 2022=41.4 · 2023=10.2 · 2024=11.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Hayward, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 27.9 · 871% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK #95/97
  • PHOTO City of Yakima Polic…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 427 inj
  • SIZE ~326 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Yakima Police Department (0.3 TCR gap)

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Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Police Department averages 27.9 TCR (871% of the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS benchmark).

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

Police Department TCR series: 2019=31.4 · 2020=62.9 · 2021=45.2 · 2022=41.4 · 2023=10.2 · 2024=11.1 · BLS 3.2

Where Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #95 safest of 97 Police departments (except Ame employers in California.

Police Department (326 employees, TCR 27.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Police Department
Police Department (326 employees, TCR 27.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Police Department has more employees than the Police departments (except American Indi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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 11.1 6.9 41 4 0
2023 10.2 7.9 40 8 0
2022 41.4 29.8 41 66 0
2021 45.2 13.3 80 39 0
2020 62.9 5.0 154 21 0
2019 31.4 5.3 71 17 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · CA · Hayward

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 336 employers in Hayward, 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 City of Yakima Police Department 27.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR U.S. Border Patrol Sector - Laredo 27.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Los Angeles Police Department, Harbor Division 28.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Los Angeles Police Department, Southwest Division 28.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Norman's Nursery, Inc. 326 FTE
STATE-SIZE Coastal Blooms Nursery, LLC 326 FTE
STATE-SIZE TORRANCE 326 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shire: Westlake Village 326 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 518 2,891 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 100 2,817 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 117 2,817 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Rose Hospital 929 FTE
NAT-TCR Safe Generation Logistics and Transportation LLC 27.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Redstone Village Grandview Gardens 27.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Community EMS 27.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Willoughby Hills 27.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mancon Scm 326 FTE
NAT-SIZE McKenzie Sports Products 326 FTE
NAT-SIZE Haines & Kibblehouse, Inc. 326 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2035 - Tinley Park 326 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, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.