General services departments, government · California

Public Works

Fairfield, CA · ~173 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Public Works runs at 312% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General services departments, government workplace, earning a grade F.

Public Works: 10.0 TCR = 312% of General services departments, government BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Public Works safety composite

Public Works scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

−9.2

2019→2024

Public Works injury rate improved

Public Works's TCR fell 9.2 from 14.6 in 2019 to 5.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 17.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=14.6 · 2020=6.4 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=17.6 · 2023=8.8 · 2024=5.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Fairfield, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.0 · 312% of ind

  • DART 4.0 DART
  • RANK #193/256
  • PHOTO Yuba County Governme…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 61 inj
  • SIZE ~173 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Yuba County Government Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Public Works in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Public Works averages 10.0 TCR (312% of the General services departments, government BLS benchmark).

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

Public Works TCR series: 2019=14.6 · 2020=6.4 · 2021=7.3 · 2022=17.6 · 2023=8.8 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Public Works falls in its industry

1,496 General services departments, establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #193 safest of 256 General services departments, employers in California.

Public Works (173 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0200400600800 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Public Works
Public Works (173 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Public Works has more employees than the General services departments, government median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 5.4 4.0 7 1 0
2023 8.8 7.4 9 4 0
2022 17.6 12.5 6 18 0
2021 7.3 5.8 9 1 0
2020 6.4 4.3 9 0 0
2019 14.6 7.6 21 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · CA · Fairfield

1,496 General services departments, government employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 172 employers in Fairfield, 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 Yuba County Government Center 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Utilities 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR city of Concord Building and Grounds 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2962-00002000 10.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Excelsior Farming LLC 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE CORE CONTRACTING, INC. 173 FTE
STATE-SIZE Golden State Construction & Framing 173 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 108 2,817 FTE
CITY-NEAR NorthBay Healthcare Medical Center 1,086 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jelly Belly Candy Company 511 FTE
CITY-NEAR Universal Propulsion Company (Fairfield CA) 460 FTE
NAT-TCR 2310 - Easton 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 1299 - Lakeland South 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 0373 - Smyrna 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hamilton Masonry, Inc. 10.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE G Proulx Building Products LLC 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pleasant View Gardens 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE Briarcliff Manor Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing Care 173 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2725 - Kyle 173 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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