Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) · California

Sheriff Department

San Bernardino, CA · ~3,321 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Sheriff Department runs at 520% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) workplace, earning a grade F.

Sheriff Department: 16.6 TCR = 520% of Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sheriff Department safety composite

Sheriff Department scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 31% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 4%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 4% 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 Department: 13.0 → 28.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 28.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.39× in 2020

Sheriff Department's TCR rose 15.2 from 13.0 in 2017 to 28.1 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · San Bernardino, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 16.6 · 520% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #62/97
  • PHOTO Guilford Police Depa…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1,435 inj
  • SIZE ~3,321 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Guilford Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sheriff Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sheriff Department averages 16.6 TCR (520% of the Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS benchmark).

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

Sheriff Department TCR series: 2017=13 · 2018=11.1 · 2019=14.3 · 2020=28.1 · BLS 3.2

Where Sheriff Department falls in its industry

716 Sheriffs' offices (except cour establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #62 safest of 97 Sheriffs' offices (except cour employers in California.

Sheriff Department (3,321 employees, TCR 16.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Sheriff Department
Sheriff Department (3,321 employees, TCR 16.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Sheriff Department has more employees than the Sheriffs' offices (except court function median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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
2020 28.1 6.5 308 619 0
2019 14.3 4.3 389 83 1
2018 11.1 3.5 368 3 0
2017 13.0 3.2 370 51 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · CA · San Bernardino

716 Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 332 employers in San Bernardino, 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 Guilford Police Department 16.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police & Animal Control 16.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wadena County Sheriff & Jail 16.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gresham Police Department 16.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE JOHN FERRARO BUILDING (JFB) 3,324 FTE
STATE-SIZE Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital 3,298 FTE
STATE-SIZE SEA 3,297 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sony Pictures Entertainment 3,351 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : ONT2 2,856 FTE
CITY-NEAR Transitional Assistance Department 2,824 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon Transportation Services : ONT5 2,475 FTE
CITY-NEAR Loma Linda University Health Shared Services 2,464 FTE
NAT-TCR Kendall Regional Medical Center 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Clark's Truck Center 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rpb 12 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Glass Fabricator 16.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE DLLSTXAT 3,320 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lockheed Martin Corporation US NJ Moorestown Bortn Lndg Rd (1015) 3,322 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mount Sinai West 3,323 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3638-K 3,317 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.