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

U.S. Border Patrol Sector - San Diego

San Diego, CA · ~2,401 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

U.S. Border Patrol Sector - San Diego runs at 590% 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 - San Diego: 18.9 TCR = 590% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

U.S. Border Patrol Sector - San Diego safety composite

U.S. Border Patrol Sector - San Diego scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

Rising injury rate

U.S. Border Patrol Sector - San Diego: 17.6 → 20.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 20.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.55× in 2018

U.S. Border Patrol Sector - San Diego's TCR rose 2.6 from 17.6 in 2016 to 20.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · San Diego, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 18.9 · 590% of ind

  • DART 10.3 DART
  • RANK #68/97
  • PHOTO Fairmont Police Depa…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 856 inj
  • SIZE ~2,401 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fairmont Police Department (0.1 TCR gap)

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U.S. Border Patrol Sector - San Diego 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 - San Diego averages 18.9 TCR (590% 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 - San Diego TCR series: 2016=17.6 · 2018=20.2 · BLS 3.2

Where U.S. Border Patrol Sector - San Diego falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #68 safest of 97 Police departments (except Ame employers in California.

U.S. Border Patrol Sector - San Diego (2,401 employees, TCR 18.9) 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate U.S. Border Patrol Sector - San Diego
U.S. Border Patrol Sector - San Diego (2,401 employees, TCR 18.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

U.S. Border Patrol Sector - San Diego 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 20.2 10.3 444 16 0
2016 17.6 3.6 412 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · CA · San Diego

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 · 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 Fairmont Police Department 18.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR COH Police Department Central Patrol Substation 18.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 18.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Genoa - Police Department 18.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 06-155997292-3 2,401 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bolthouse Bakersfield 2,400 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2636-CALIFORNIA, MILPITAS 2,400 FTE
STATE-SIZE 694 DESERT REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,399 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Diego Health 9,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics 8,108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Human Services Agency 6,080 FTE
CITY-NEAR National University 4,955 FTE
NAT-TCR Wynfield Park Health and Rehabilitation 18.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ohio Farms Packing Company 18.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Crucial Mile Logistics LLC 18.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Dakota Ridge School 18.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE St. Mary's Hospital - Madison 2,401 FTE
NAT-SIZE VAME 2,400 FTE
NAT-SIZE Houston (Canino) Hub (Txcan) 2,399 FTE
NAT-SIZE STIHL Inc. 2,399 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.