Community health programs administration · California

Public Health Department

Merced, CA · ~127 workers · 4 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 Health Department runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Community health programs administration workplace, earning a grade C.

Public Health Department: 3.4 TCR = 107% of Community health programs administration BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Public Health Department safety composite

Public Health Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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 Health Department held a steady TCR band

Public Health Department's TCR held near 0.3 from 1.8 in 2021 to 2.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=1.8 · 2022=6.9 · 2023=3.0 · 2024=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 923120 · Merced, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 107% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #41/66
  • PHOTO Central Management S…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~127 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Central Management Services (0.0 TCR gap)

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Public Health Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Public Health Department averages 3.4 TCR (107% of the Community health programs administration BLS benchmark).

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

Public Health Department TCR series: 2021=1.8 · 2022=6.9 · 2023=3 · 2024=2.1 · BLS 3.2

Where Public Health Department falls in its industry

267 Community health programs admi establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 66 Community health programs admi employers in California.

Public Health Department (127 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Public Health Department
Public Health Department (127 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Public Health Department has more employees than the Community health programs administration median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 2.1 1.0 0 2 0
2023 3.0 0.0 2 1 0
2022 6.9 0.0 3 4 0
2021 1.8 0.9 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

923120 · CA · Merced

267 Community health programs administration employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 187 employers in Merced, 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 Central Management Services 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dept. of Health & Social Services (29) 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Indiana Department of Health - 2N 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Behavioral Health 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Christensen & Giannini LLC 1588 Moffett St., Ste B 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hokto Kinoko Company 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE Booth Ranches LLC - BR2 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3019_5835 127 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030211 1,404 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030211-211001 MERCY MEDICAL CENTER MERCED 1,306 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dignity Health 1,279 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2643-64030211-211001 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR Woodville 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Bullhead City ESD 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Boulder Contracting 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR MS Cafe 36 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE CaroMont Health Services, Inc. d/b/a Courtland Terrace 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Swagelok Snow Metal 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warren MI FXFE-WRN 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elmhurst IL FXFE-ELH 127 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.