City and town councils · California

The City of Menlo Park

Menlo Park, CA · ~374 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The City of Menlo Park runs at 241% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical City and town councils workplace, earning a grade F.

The City of Menlo Park: 7.7 TCR = 241% of City and town councils BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The City of Menlo Park safety composite

The City of Menlo Park scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

The City of Menlo Park: 5.5 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 10.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.8× in 2024

The City of Menlo Park's TCR rose 1.8 from 5.5 in 2022 to 7.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 10.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.8× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921120 · Menlo Park, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 241% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #8/17
  • PHOTO Town of Brookville
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 53 inj
  • SIZE ~374 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Town of Brookville (0.0 TCR gap)

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The City of Menlo Park in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The City of Menlo Park averages 7.7 TCR (241% of the City and town councils BLS benchmark).

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

The City of Menlo Park TCR series: 2022=5.5 · 2023=10.3 · 2024=7.3 · BLS 3.2

Where The City of Menlo Park falls in its industry

158 City and town councils establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 17 City and town councils employers in California.

The City of Menlo Park (374 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 5.6 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 02004006008001,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate The City of Menlo Park
The City of Menlo Park (374 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 5.6

The City of Menlo Park has more employees than the City and town councils median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.6. 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 7.3 6.2 19 0 0
2023 10.3 8.1 22 2 0
2022 5.5 3.8 12 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921120 · CA · Menlo Park

158 City and town councils employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 62 employers in Menlo Park, 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 Town of Brookville 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Douglas County 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Livingston County 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Gaylord,MN 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 2245 374 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2526 374 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5305 374 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6458-ZSFR 374 FTE
CITY-NEAR SH Menlo Park 628 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rudolph and Sletten 516 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rosewood Sand Hill 430 FTE
CITY-NEAR Care Indeed Inc 381 FTE
NAT-TCR Baker Creek Heirloom Seed Company LLC 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Motor Lodge Associates of Madison LLC 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Neogen Corporation Mt. Sterling 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Harlingen, TX 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Metropolitan Campus 374 FTE
NAT-SIZE Henkels & McCoy, Inc. - Pipeline Division 374 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lake Erie Electric, Inc. 374 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prime Now LLC - UNY5 374 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. 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.