Cleaning swimming pools · California

Poolwerx Palm Desert

Palm Desert, CA · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Poolwerx Palm Desert runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Cleaning swimming pools workplace, earning a grade F.

Poolwerx Palm Desert: 9.1 TCR = 203% of Cleaning swimming pools BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Poolwerx Palm Desert safety composite

Poolwerx Palm Desert scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−12.1

2017→2018

Poolwerx Palm Desert injury rate improved

Poolwerx Palm Desert's TCR fell 12.1 from 15.2 in 2017 to 3.1 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 15.2 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=15.2 · 2018=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561790 · Palm Desert, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 203% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #13/21
  • PHOTO Bella Blue Water
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bella Blue Water (0.1 TCR gap)

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Poolwerx Palm Desert in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Poolwerx Palm Desert averages 9.1 TCR (203% of the Cleaning swimming pools BLS benchmark).

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

Poolwerx Palm Desert TCR series: 2017=15.2 · 2018=3.1 · BLS 4.5

Where Poolwerx Palm Desert falls in its industry

171 Cleaning swimming pools establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 21 Cleaning swimming pools employers in California.

Poolwerx Palm Desert (25 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Poolwerx Palm Desert
Poolwerx Palm Desert (25 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 44 employees and a TCR of 5.1

Poolwerx Palm Desert has fewer employees than the Cleaning swimming pools median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2018 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2017 15.2 11.4 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561790 · CA · Palm Desert

171 Cleaning swimming pools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 106 employers in Palm Desert, 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 Bella Blue Water 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fort Lee, VA 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Building Maintenance 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aquatic Technologies, Inc. dba Aquatic Service, Inc. 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Conservation Farms Ranches 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE GM Ag Services, Inc. 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farm Shop 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dougherty Brothers 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR JW Marriott Desert Springs Resort and Spa 994 FTE
CITY-NEAR JW Marriott Desert Springs 800 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marriott Shadow Ridge 404 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5096 357 FTE
NAT-TCR North Star Rehabilitation and Care Community 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Alfred Univ-Powell Cafe (James)** 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Walters Ready Mix, Inc. 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cross Country Healthcare Center 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trouw Nutrition Neosho 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE The House 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shop 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Country Pork LLP 25 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.