Sheriff
Open-data reference.
SAN DIEGO, CA | Police Protection
~3,853 avg employees | 8 years of OSHA data
Sheriff has an average TCR of 9.5, which is 296% of the industry average (3.2) for Police Protection. This is significantly worse than average.
Safety Insights for Sheriff
Sheriff operates an establishment with approximately 3,853 full-time equivalent workers in SAN DIEGO, CA, classified under the Police Protection industry (NAICS 922120). Across 8 years of mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reporting, this employer has accumulated 2,535 recordable injuries, 713 occupational illnesses, and 3 workplace fatalities. The average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 9.5 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year provides the anchor metric for the F letter grade (Failing Safety Record).
Benchmarked against the Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average of 3.2 for Police Protection, Sheriff's workforce experiences 296% of the typical injury burden. This ratio matters because TCR already normalizes for hours worked — a 200,000-hour exposure base equals roughly 100 full-time workers — so establishments with very different headcounts can be compared directly. A TCR above the benchmark flags a higher-than-typical risk profile for jobseekers, insurers, and enforcement agencies to examine.
Multi-year trend analysis is the single most reliable signal here: a one-year spike could reflect a single severe event, whereas sustained elevation across 8 reporting cycles points to systemic hazard exposure. Readers evaluating Sheriff as an employer, contractor, investment, or regulatory target should examine the yearly DART rate (days away, restricted, or transferred), the fatality count of 3, and any year-over-year deterioration shown in the table below. All figures come directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries — there is no modeling, estimation, or third-party adjustment layered on top of the government data.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from Sheriff's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source — name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor — OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 922120 — Police Protection.
DART Rate — Transparent Calculation (2024)
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
238 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 8,726,578 hours worked = 5.45 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904 — OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context — Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Sheriff (this establishment) | 9.46 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 8-year avg |
| Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) industry avg | 3.20 | BLS IIF, NAICS 922120 |
| California state avg (all industries) | 58.88 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics — Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Sheriff to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 381 reportable incidents · 329 injuries, 52 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 449 reportable incidents · 393 injuries, 55 illnesses, 1 fatality — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 595 reportable incidents · 338 injuries, 256 illnesses, 1 fatality — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 480 reportable incidents · 332 injuries, 147 illnesses, 1 fatality — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 287 reportable incidents · 257 injuries, 30 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 330 reportable incidents · 291 injuries, 39 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 381 reportable incidents · 305 injuries, 76 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 348 reportable incidents · 290 injuries, 58 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) — inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8.7 | 5.5 | 329 | 52 | 0 |
| 2023 | 10.1 | 6.1 | 393 | 55 | 1 |
| 2022 | 14.3 | 12.0 | 338 | 256 | 1 |
| 2021 | 11.8 | 7.3 | 332 | 147 | 1 |
| 2020 | 6.8 | 5.0 | 257 | 30 | 0 |
| 2019 | 7.3 | 3.2 | 291 | 39 | 0 |
| 2018 | 8.6 | 1.8 | 305 | 76 | 0 |
| 2017 | 8.0 | 3.1 | 290 | 58 | 0 |
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Sheriff's safety grade?
How is the safety grade calculated?
How many injuries has Sheriff reported?
Where does PlainSafetyScore get its data?
Explore More Safety Data
Read our methodology — how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.