Public defenders' offices · California

Public Defender Visalia

Visalia, CA · ~63 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Public Defender Visalia runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Public defenders' offices workplace, earning a grade C.

Public Defender Visalia: 3.4 TCR = 107% of Public defenders' offices BLS 3.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Public Defender Visalia safety composite

Public Defender Visalia scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 14%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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%).

Public Defender Visalia held a steady TCR band

Public Defender Visalia's TCR held near 0.2 from 6.0 in 2017 to 6.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.0 · 2018=1.5 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=6.2 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=6.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922130 · Visalia, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 107% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #21/32
  • PHOTO San Joaquin County D…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: San Joaquin County District Attorney (0.1 TCR gap)

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Public Defender Visalia in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Public Defender Visalia averages 3.4 TCR (107% of the Public defenders' offices BLS benchmark).

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

Public Defender Visalia TCR series: 2017=6 · 2018=1.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=6.2 · 2023=2.1 · 2024=6.2 · BLS 3.2

Where Public Defender Visalia falls in its industry

92 Public defenders' offices establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 32 Public defenders' offices employers in California.

Public Defender Visalia (63 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.2 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Public Defender Visalia
Public Defender Visalia (63 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 1.2

Public Defender Visalia has fewer employees than the Public defenders' offices median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.2. 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 6.2 0.0 3 0 0
2023 2.1 0.0 0 2 0
2022 6.2 0.0 3 0 0
2021 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2017 6.0 1.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922130 · CA · Visalia

92 Public defenders' offices employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 349 employers in Visalia, 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 San Joaquin County District Attorney 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR San Joaquin County Public Defender 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR District Attorney 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ventura County District Attorney's Office 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE VF - Lodi 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Valley Ventures, Inc. 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Goossen Farms Inc 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE NGW, LLC 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaweah Delta Health Care District 4,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paragon Personnel 2,129 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 194 1,485 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 473 1,479 FTE
NAT-TCR St. Marys Manor 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Highland 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Barro's Pizza, 51st Ave 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Deschutes Brewery 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Swingen Construction Company 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carolina Commercial Systems 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Marrington Middle School of the Arts 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Williams AV - EP 63 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, 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.