Colleges Universities and Professional Schools · California

UC Irvine

Irvine, CA · ~16,029 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

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

UC Irvine safety composite

UC Irvine scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−0.6

2017→2024

UC Irvine injury rate improved

UC Irvine's TCR fell 0.6 from 2.0 in 2017 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 2.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=2.0 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 1.7 · 119% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #11/20
  • PHOTO Suffolk University
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 828 inj
  • SIZE ~16,029 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Suffolk University (0.0 TCR gap)

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UC Irvine in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows UC Irvine 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 Irvine TCR series: 2017=2 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=1.7 · 2020=1.4 · 2021=1.5 · 2022=1.6 · 2023=1.6 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 1.4

Where UC Irvine falls in its industry

347 Colleges Universities and Prof establishments

Safer than 44% 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 #11 safest of 20 Colleges Universities and Prof employers in California.

UC Irvine (16,029 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 05,00010,00015,00020,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate UC Irvine
UC Irvine (16,029 employees, TCR 1.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5

UC Irvine 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 1.4 0.8 118 58 0
2023 1.6 0.7 110 76 0
2022 1.6 0.8 111 66 0
2021 1.5 0.4 94 75 0
2020 1.4 0.5 79 82 0
2019 1.7 0.7 132 53 0
2018 2.1 0.9 132 90 0
2017 2.0 0.9 52 157 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611310 · CA · Irvine

347 Colleges Universities and Professional Schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 622 employers in Irvine, 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 Suffolk University 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR UC Davis 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR University Corporation at Monterey Bay 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR St. Olaf College 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Stanford Health Care 16,371 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pacific Farm Management Inc 17,529 FTE
STATE-SIZE UC San Francisco 18,070 FTE
STATE-SIZE Genentech SSF 13,259 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-10 4,926 FTE
CITY-NEAR Edwards Lifesciences 4,189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson and Johnson MDD CSS Irvine 3,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson and Johnson MDD CSS 2,285 FTE
NAT-TCR Minnesota Exteriors, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Billco Manufacturing, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR National Restoration Systems, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Coffeyville Resources Nitrogen Fertilizers 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE NYU Grossman School of Medicine 16,280 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3M Center 15,771 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yale-New Haven Hospital 15,725 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lockheed Martin Corporation US TX Fort Worth Lockheed Blvd (1093) 16,547 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.