Basketball teams, professional or semiprofessional · California

The Los Angeles Lakers - STAPLES Center

El Segundo, CA · ~58 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
22.7
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Los Angeles Lakers - STAPLES Center runs at 733% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Basketball teams, professional or semiprofessional workplace, earning a grade F.

The Los Angeles Lakers - STAPLES Center: 22.7 TCR = 733% of Basketball teams, professional or semiprofessional BLS 3.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Los Angeles Lakers - STAPLES Center safety composite

The Los Angeles Lakers - STAPLES Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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 22.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 34.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

The Los Angeles Lakers - STAPLES Center: 8.1 → 37.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 37.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.54× in 2021

The Los Angeles Lakers - STAPLES Center's TCR rose 29.3 from 8.1 in 2020 to 37.4 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 711211 · El Segundo, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 22.7 · 733% of ind

  • DART 34.9 DART
  • RANK #20/21
  • PHOTO Fever Basketball LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fever Basketball LLC (0.3 TCR gap)

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The Los Angeles Lakers - STAPLES Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Los Angeles Lakers - STAPLES Center averages 22.7 TCR (733% of the Basketball teams, professional or semiprofessional BLS benchmark).

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

The Los Angeles Lakers - STAPLES Center TCR series: 2020=8.1 · 2021=37.4 · BLS 3.1

Where The Los Angeles Lakers - STAPLES Center falls in its industry

157 Basketball teams, professional establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 21 Basketball teams, professional employers in California.

The Los Angeles Lakers - STAPLES Center (58 employees, TCR 22.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 206 employees and a TCR of 5.1 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate The Los Angeles Lakers - STAPLES Center
The Los Angeles Lakers - STAPLES Center (58 employees, TCR 22.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 206 employees and a TCR of 5.1

The Los Angeles Lakers - STAPLES Center has fewer employees than the Basketball teams, professional or semipr median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.1. 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
2021 37.4 34.9 15 0 0
2020 8.1 8.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

711211 · CA · El Segundo

157 Basketball teams, professional or semiprofessional employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 121 employers in El Segundo, 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 Fever Basketball LLC 22.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 2039-OGDEN RAPTORS 22.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chicago Cubs Baseball Club LLC 22.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hockey Western New York, LLC 21.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE S & R Farm Labor Contractor 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE RANCHO DEL MAR, INC. 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laurel Labor Services 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Juan Briones 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_El Segundo_CA 5,443 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA011 3,282 FTE
CITY-NEAR NGAS-A113 2,490 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northrup Grumman Systems Corporation 1,934 FTE
NAT-TCR Villa Pueblo Senior Living Community 22.7 TCR
NAT-TCR O'Fallon Ofc/Whse 22.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1582 22.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Primrose Retirement Community of Shawnee 22.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Lawndale Park 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eau Claire- 35 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fabick Mining- 30 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4th Corporation 58 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: 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.