Colleges Universities and Professional Schools · California

UC Davis

Davis, CA · ~24,317 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

UC Davis runs at 119% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Colleges Universities and Professional Schools workplace, earning a grade C.

UC Davis: 1.7 TCR = 119% of Colleges Universities and Professional Schools BLS 1.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

UC Davis safety composite

UC Davis scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 2%), 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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 2% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.4

2017→2024

UC Davis injury rate improved

UC Davis's TCR fell 0.4 from 1.9 in 2017 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.9 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611310 · Davis, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade C · TCR 1.7 · 119% of ind

  • DART 0.4 DART
  • RANK #12/20
  • PHOTO University Corporati…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 1,791 inj
  • SIZE ~24,317 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: University Corporation at Monterey Bay (0.0 TCR gap)

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UC Davis in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows UC Davis averages 1.7 TCR (119% of the Colleges Universities and Professional Schools BLS benchmark).

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

UC Davis TCR series: 2017=1.9 · 2018=1.9 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 1.4

Where UC Davis falls in its industry

347 Colleges Universities and Prof establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 20 Colleges Universities and Prof employers in California.

UC Davis (24,317 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5 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 010,00020,00030,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate UC Davis
UC Davis (24,317 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5

UC Davis has more employees than the Colleges Universities and Professional S median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.5. 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
2024 1.6 0.4 221 60 0
2023 1.5 0.4 228 28 0
2022 1.7 1.2 240 51 0
2021 1.5 1.1 224 32 0
2020 1.4 1.1 172 51 0
2019 1.8 1.1 258 41 0
2018 1.9 1.1 261 49 1
2017 1.9 1.2 187 117 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611310 · CA · Davis

347 Colleges Universities and Professional Schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 63 employers in Davis, 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 University Corporation at Monterey Bay 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Olaf College 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thomas Jefferson University 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Austin Campus - Texas Medical Careers 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE UC Berkeley 22,120 FTE
STATE-SIZE UC San Diego 27,023 FTE
STATE-SIZE NA-US-CA-Fremont-45500 Fremont Blvd 21,378 FTE
STATE-SIZE Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S., Inc. d/b/a Disneyland Resort 28,066 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Valley Hospitals (30290) 714 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Davis Hospital (110-3001) 621 FTE
CITY-NEAR Teichert Construction Woodland 382 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Retirement Community 212 FTE
NAT-TCR County Board Jurisdiction Departments 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Duluth GA Yard 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Paint Valley Parts 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR NuMED Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Michigan State University 24,146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Newport News Shipbuilding - Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries 24,543 FTE
NAT-SIZE Duke University 23,871 FTE
NAT-SIZE Urbana Campus 23,671 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.