Building cleaning services, janitorial · California

The Sacramento Bee

Sacramento, CA · ~4 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Sacramento Bee runs at 15% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Building cleaning services, janitorial workplace, earning a grade A.

The Sacramento Bee: 0.7 TCR = 15% of Building cleaning services, janitorial BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Sacramento Bee safety composite

The Sacramento Bee scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 95% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

78/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 95% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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%).

The Sacramento Bee held a steady TCR band

The Sacramento Bee's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 2.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=0.0 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561720 · Sacramento, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 15% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #10/368
  • PHOTO Beebe Public Sch Mai…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~4 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Beebe Public Sch Main Campus (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Sacramento Bee in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Sacramento Bee averages 0.7 TCR (15% of the Building cleaning services, janitorial BLS benchmark).

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

The Sacramento Bee TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=2.7 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · BLS 4.5

Where The Sacramento Bee falls in its industry

4,064 Building cleaning services, ja establishments

Safer than 95% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 368 Building cleaning services, ja employers in California.

The Sacramento Bee (4 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate The Sacramento Bee
The Sacramento Bee (4 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 3.2

The Sacramento Bee has fewer employees than the Building cleaning services, janitorial median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.7 1.3 8 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561720 · CA · Sacramento

4,064 Building cleaning services, janitorial employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,348 employers in Sacramento, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Beebe Public Sch Main Campus 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR University of Tennessee Medica 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT CAMPBELL WILLARD JANITORIAL 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shelby Baptist Medical Center 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rosenmund Ranch 4 FTE
STATE-SIZE VISTA HERMOSA HARVESTING, INC. 4 FTE
STATE-SIZE Qualtech Concrete Inc 4 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arnold's Metal Finishing Inc. 4 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Davis Health 10,481 FTE
CITY-NEAR Employment Development Department 8,494 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 451 5,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 485 5,500 FTE
NAT-TCR Parks Brothers Farms, Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR EnviroLogix Inc. 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR US092: Evansville, IN 324 - SG 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Las Vegas, NV HVAC 0.7 TCR

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, 2019, 2018. 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.