Colleges Universities and Professional Schools · California

UC Los Angeles

Los Angeles, CA · ~40,333 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

UC Los Angeles runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Colleges Universities and Professional Schools workplace, earning a grade D.

UC Los Angeles: 1.9 TCR = 138% of Colleges Universities and Professional Schools BLS 1.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

UC Los Angeles safety composite

UC Los Angeles scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 0.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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%).

UC Los Angeles held a steady TCR band

UC Los Angeles's TCR held near 0.3 from 2.0 in 2021 to 1.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 2.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.0 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=1.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611310 · Los Angeles, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade D · TCR 1.9 · 138% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #16/20
  • PHOTO ISU - On Campus
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1,261 inj
  • SIZE ~40,333 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ISU - On Campus (0.0 TCR gap)

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UC Los Angeles in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows UC Los Angeles averages 1.9 TCR (138% 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 Los Angeles TCR series: 2021=2 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=1.7 · BLS 1.4

Where UC Los Angeles falls in its industry

347 Colleges Universities and Prof establishments

Safer than 36% 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 #16 safest of 20 Colleges Universities and Prof employers in California.

UC Los Angeles (40,333 employees, TCR 1.9) 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 010,00020,00030,00040,00050,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate UC Los Angeles
UC Los Angeles (40,333 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 617 employees and a TCR of 1.5

UC Los Angeles 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 1.7 0.8 314 240 0
2023 1.9 0.8 355 222 0
2022 2.1 0.9 323 282 0
2021 2.0 0.8 269 296 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611310 · CA · Los Angeles

347 Colleges Universities and Professional Schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 2,064 employers in Los Angeles, 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 ISU - On Campus 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR UC Berkeley 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Misericordia University 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR A.T. Still University of Health Sciences 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Walt Disney Parks and Resorts U.S. Inc., dba Disneyland Resort 38,057 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6017-Loc: CORP LOC - USA UNITED STATES - Santa Clara Valley 37,591 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6017-CORP LOC - USA UNITED STATES - SCV 31,225 FTE
STATE-SIZE Live Nation Worldwide, Inc. 50,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR LADWP 11,717 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles Department of Water and Power 10,346 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Los Angeles Health 9,727 FTE
CITY-NEAR Los Angeles General Medical Center - Main Campus 7,430 FTE
NAT-TCR North Dallas Transmission 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR SP Industries, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Daily's Premium Meats 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackson (Gas), MO 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mayo Clinic Rochester 38,233 FTE
NAT-SIZE UW Seattle 32,378 FTE
NAT-SIZE WA004 31,034 FTE
NAT-SIZE Massachusetts General Hospital 26,855 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. 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.