Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · California

U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Centro

El Centro, CA · ~971 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
20.4
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Centro runs at 637% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade F.

U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Centro: 20.4 TCR = 637% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Centro safety composite

U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Centro scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 20.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−2.0

2016→2018

U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Centro injury rate improved

U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Centro's TCR fell 2.0 from 21.4 in 2016 to 19.4 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 21.4 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.54× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=21.4 · 2018=19.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · El Centro, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 20.4 · 637% of ind

  • DART 11.0 DART
  • RANK #75/97
  • PHOTO Town of Shallotte Po…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 381 inj
  • SIZE ~971 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Town of Shallotte Police Department (0.1 TCR gap)

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U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Centro in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Centro averages 20.4 TCR (637% of the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS benchmark).

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

U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Centro TCR series: 2016=21.4 · 2018=19.4 · BLS 3.2

Where U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Centro falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #75 safest of 97 Police departments (except Ame employers in California.

U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Centro (971 employees, TCR 20.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 05001,0001,500 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Centro
U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Centro (971 employees, TCR 20.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

U.S. Border Patrol Sector - El Centro has more employees than the Police departments (except American Indi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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
2018 19.4 11.0 174 2 0
2016 21.4 1.4 207 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · CA · El Centro

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 91 employers in El Centro, 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 Town of Shallotte Police Department 20.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 20.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR McLean County Sheriff's Department 20.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department (CON-0504) 20.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Marz Farms Inc. 971 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maria Acevedo 971 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hilmar Cheese Company INC. 971 FTE
STATE-SIZE ClearPath Workforce Managment 971 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Imperial 2,285 FTE
CITY-NEAR JJ HARVESTING 1,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 350 1,170 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1555 470 FTE
NAT-TCR 0055 - El Paso, Tx 20.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Medford Moulding Company 20.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hearthside Senior Living of Bartlett 20.4 TCR
NAT-TCR All Saints Senior Living 20.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Johnson and Johnson Consumer Inc McNeil Consumer Healthcare Division PPC 971 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ameristar Black Hawk 971 FTE
NAT-SIZE Masco Cabinetry Middlefield LLC Plant #2 971 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1855-FLJAC5 971 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: 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.