Hotels (except casino hotels) · California

Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel

Palo Alto, CA · ~176 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel runs at 242% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hotels (except casino hotels) workplace, earning a grade F.

Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel: 7.3 TCR = 242% of Hotels (except casino hotels) BLS 3.0 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel safety composite

Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel: 4.5 → 11.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 1365.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2023

Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel's TCR rose 6.8 from 4.5 in 2018 to 11.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 1365.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 721110 · Palo Alto, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 242% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #581/1298
  • PHOTO Homewood Suites
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 79 inj
  • SIZE ~176 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Homewood Suites (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel averages 7.3 TCR (242% of the Hotels (except casino hotels) BLS benchmark).

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

Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel TCR series: 2018=4.5 · 2019=0.2 · 2020=13.2 · 2021=1365.2 · 2023=11.3 · BLS 3.0

Where Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel falls in its industry

9,342 Hotels (except casino hotels) establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #581 safest of 1298 Hotels (except casino hotels) employers in California.

Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel (176 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 0100200300 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel
Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel (176 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Sheraton Palo Alto Hotel has more employees than the Hotels (except casino hotels) median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2023 11.3 5.6 9 9 0
2021 1365.2 1365.2 10 0 0
2020 13.2 7.7 12 0 0
2019 0.2 0.1 28 0 0
2018 4.5 4.3 20 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

721110 · CA · Palo Alto

9,342 Hotels (except casino hotels) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 116 employers in Palo Alto, 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 Homewood Suites 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR DoubleTree by Hilton Denver Aurora 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Westin Ka'anapali Ocean Resort Villas 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hotel Boston Common 7.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mt. View Ag 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-South Bay S/C 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE LADWP 2311 FAIRFAX 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE Matt Construction Corporation 176 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stanford Health Care 16,371 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-CA-Palo Alto-Deer Creek-Office 1,878 FTE
CITY-NEAR Varian, Palo Alto 1,396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-10110) 1,227 FTE
NAT-TCR Salem 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hartley & Parker Limited LLC 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR USM Store #551 (United) 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Junction City Courtyard 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rockwell Collins (Bellevue IA) 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mile High Flea Market 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Village at Duxbury Homeowners Cooperative Corporation 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blucor Contracting Inc 176 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: 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.