Symphony orchestras · California

San Diego Symphony Orchestra

San Diego, CA · ~301 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

San Diego Symphony Orchestra runs at 69% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Symphony orchestras workplace, earning a grade B.

San Diego Symphony Orchestra: 2.1 TCR = 69% of Symphony orchestras BLS 3.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

San Diego Symphony Orchestra safety composite

San Diego Symphony Orchestra scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 67% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% 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%).

San Diego Symphony Orchestra held a steady TCR band

San Diego Symphony Orchestra's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.0 in 2023 to 2.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=2.0 · 2024=2.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 711130 · San Diego, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 69% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK P67
  • PHOTO Los Angeles Philharm…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~301 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Los Angeles Philharmonic Association (0.2 TCR gap)

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San Diego Symphony Orchestra in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows San Diego Symphony Orchestra averages 2.1 TCR (69% of the Symphony orchestras BLS benchmark).

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

San Diego Symphony Orchestra TCR series: 2023=2 · 2024=2.3 · BLS 3.1

Where San Diego Symphony Orchestra falls in its industry

15 Symphony orchestras establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
San Diego Symphony Orchestra (301 employees, TCR 2.1) among 9 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 2.3 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 10 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate EspersonFlorida West Coast Symphony, Inc.Florida West Coast Symphony Inc. d/b/a Sarasota OrchestraSaint Louis Symphony OrchestraJones HallDallas Symphony Association IncLos Angeles Philharmonic Association24-7 PRODUCTION EVENT SERVICES INCColumbus Symphony OrchestraSan Diego Symphony Orchestra
San Diego Symphony Orchestra (301 employees, TCR 2.1) among 9 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 2.3

San Diego Symphony Orchestra has more employees than the Symphony orchestras median and a lower 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 2.3 2.3 5 0 0
2023 2.0 1.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

711130 · CA · San Diego

15 Symphony orchestras employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,979 employers in San Diego, 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 Los Angeles Philharmonic Association 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Florida West Coast Symphony, Inc. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seattle Symphony 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dallas Symphony Association Inc 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pro Wall Lath and Plaster Inc 301 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plant WG 301 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fiber Care Baths, Inc. 301 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arconic Fastening Systems-City of Industry 301 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Diego Health 9,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics 8,108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Human Services Agency 6,080 FTE
CITY-NEAR National University 4,955 FTE
NAT-TCR Westlake Global Compounds , Madison 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Famous Dave's - Minnetonka 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Castelli Magnet LLC 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Oakland Nursery - Delaware 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Antaya Technologies, LLC 301 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sholom Home East Inc. 301 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chamberlin Houston LLC 301 FTE
NAT-SIZE United Integrated Services (USA) Corp 301 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. 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.