Public safety bureaus and statistics centers, government · California

Sheriff Animal Control

Merced, CA · ~20 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
33.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sheriff Animal Control runs at 1040% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Public safety bureaus and statistics centers, government workplace, earning a grade F.

Sheriff Animal Control: 33.3 TCR = 1040% of Public safety bureaus and statistics centers, government BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sheriff Animal Control safety composite

Sheriff Animal Control scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 33.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

Fatalities
C 0

Safer than 55% 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

Sheriff Animal Control: 25.8 → 43.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 47.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.29× in 2024

Sheriff Animal Control's TCR rose 18.1 from 25.8 in 2019 to 43.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 47.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922190 · Merced, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 33.3 · 1040% of ind

  • DART 9.7 DART
  • RANK #25/25
  • PHOTO Industry Sheriff Sta…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Industry Sheriff Station (4.1 TCR gap)

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Sheriff Animal Control in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sheriff Animal Control averages 33.3 TCR (1040% of the Public safety bureaus and statistics centers, government BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

Sheriff Animal Control TCR series: 2019=25.8 · 2020=27.6 · 2021=33.5 · 2022=47.2 · 2023=21.6 · 2024=43.9 · BLS 3.2

Where Sheriff Animal Control falls in its industry

79 Public safety bureaus and stat establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 25 Public safety bureaus and stat employers in California.

Sheriff Animal Control (20 employees, TCR 33.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 05001,0001,500 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Sheriff Animal Control
Sheriff Animal Control (20 employees, TCR 33.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Sheriff Animal Control has fewer employees than the Public safety bureaus and statistics cen median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 43.9 9.7 7 2 0
2023 21.6 16.2 2 2 0
2022 47.2 11.8 6 2 0
2021 33.5 0.0 4 1 0
2020 27.6 6.9 2 2 0
2019 25.8 6.5 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922190 · CA · Merced

79 Public safety bureaus and statistics centers, government 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 Industry Sheriff Station 29.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fresno Police Department 28.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR MONTEREY COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE 24.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Century Regional Justice Center 22.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Store 2079 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Store 1883 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Les Schwab Tire Center-Brentwood 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Works (Fleet & Street) 20 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 Governor Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 048 Juvenile Detention Center 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rockland Facility 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kemper Moving Systems 30.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crawford Roofing Experts 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dms - Key West 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lewisy Fuel Oil, Inc 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wind River Environmental Monroe, CT 20 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.