Hospitals · California

UC San Diego Health

San Diego, CA · ~9,310 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

UC San Diego Health runs at 62% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Hospitals workplace, earning a grade B.

UC San Diego Health: 4.6 TCR = 62% of Hospitals BLS 7.5 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

UC San Diego Health safety composite

UC San Diego Health scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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 San Diego Health held a steady TCR band

UC San Diego Health's TCR held near 0.1 from 4.4 in 2017 to 4.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 6.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=4.4 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=6.3 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · San Diego, CA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 4.6 · 62% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK #152/662
  • PHOTO Holy Cross Hospital-…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 2,038 inj
  • SIZE ~9,310 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Holy Cross Hospital-HCH-FL (0.0 TCR gap)

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UC San Diego Health in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows UC San Diego Health averages 4.6 TCR (62% of the Hospitals BLS benchmark).

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

UC San Diego Health TCR series: 2017=4.4 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=4.7 · 2020=6.3 · 2021=4.4 · 2022=3.8 · 2023=4.5 · 2024=4.5 · BLS 7.5

Where UC San Diego Health falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #152 safest of 662 Hospitals employers in California.

UC San Diego Health (9,310 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate UC San Diego Health
UC San Diego Health (9,310 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

UC San Diego Health has more employees than the Hospitals median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2024 4.5 2.3 291 164 0
2023 4.5 2.4 275 118 0
2022 3.8 2.2 215 103 0
2021 4.4 1.2 253 120 0
2020 6.3 3.5 277 242 0
2019 4.7 2.4 258 160 0
2018 4.4 2.7 239 127 0
2017 4.4 2.9 230 112 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · CA · San Diego

6,862 Hospitals employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,979 employers in San Diego, 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 Holy Cross Hospital-HCH-FL 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Owensboro Health Muhlenberg Community Hospital 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Onalaska 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mercy Regional Medical Center 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Universal City Studios 9,056 FTE
STATE-SIZE NGAS-K477 9,046 FTE
STATE-SIZE UC Los Angeles Health 9,727 FTE
STATE-SIZE Foothill Packing 8,854 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics 8,108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Human Services Agency 6,080 FTE
CITY-NEAR National University 4,955 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-02 4,525 FTE
NAT-TCR Lci - 203 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Chicago Glue & Machine Location 1 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Springfield 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR S03457 - Columbus Hauling 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE 4795-AA-MIA-MIAMI-MIA-TRML 9,259 FTE
NAT-SIZE Drivers Management LLC/Over the Road Drivers 9,373 FTE
NAT-SIZE Weill Cornell Medicine-NY 9,240 FTE
NAT-SIZE PH - Columbia & MSCHONY 9,403 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.