Port facility operation · California

San Diego Unified Port District

San Diego, CA · ~590 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

San Diego Unified Port District runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Port facility operation workplace, earning a grade F.

San Diego Unified Port District: 9.1 TCR = 203% of Port facility operation BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

San Diego Unified Port District safety composite

San Diego Unified Port District scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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).

F

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

−3.0

2020→2024

San Diego Unified Port District injury rate improved

San Diego Unified Port District's TCR fell 3.0 from 10.6 in 2020 to 7.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 10.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=10.6 · 2024=7.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488310 · San Diego, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 203% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #12/13
  • PHOTO PCMC - Tacoma
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 56 inj
  • SIZE ~590 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PCMC - Tacoma (0.5 TCR gap)

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San Diego Unified Port District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows San Diego Unified Port District averages 9.1 TCR (203% of the Port facility operation BLS benchmark).

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

San Diego Unified Port District TCR series: 2020=10.6 · 2024=7.6 · BLS 4.5

Where San Diego Unified Port District falls in its industry

81 Port facility operation establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 13 Port facility operation employers in California.

San Diego Unified Port District (590 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate San Diego Unified Port District
San Diego Unified Port District (590 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 4.2

San Diego Unified Port District has more employees than the Port facility operation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 7.6 6.3 21 2 0
2020 10.6 8.1 35 29 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488310 · CA · San Diego

81 Port facility operation 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 PCMC - Tacoma 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hendricks River Logistics, LLC 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Columbus Street Terminal 8.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Autoridad de los Puertos de Puerto Rico/Negociado Maritimo 8.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Liberty Packing Company 590 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arconic Global Fasteners & Rings, INC. Fullerton 590 FTE
STATE-SIZE SAN-GROUND OPS 590 FTE
STATE-SIZE Preschool Services 590 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 Sullivan County Memorial Hospital 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Primrose Retirement Community of Kokomo 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR North View Middle School 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cottonwood Village 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Soldiers Sailors Memorial Hosp 590 FTE
NAT-SIZE Njnew - Newark Airport 590 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aurora At Home Corporate 590 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jackson County Intermediate School District 590 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, 2020. 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.