Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) · California

Ventura County Sheriff's Office

Ventura, CA · ~1,227 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
3
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ventura County Sheriff's Office runs at 434% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) workplace, earning a grade F.

Ventura County Sheriff's Office: 13.9 TCR = 434% of Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ventura County Sheriff's Office safety composite

Ventura County Sheriff's Office scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 37% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

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Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 3

Safer than 1% 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

Ventura County Sheriff's Office: 8.3 → 12.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 22.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.4× in 2023

Ventura County Sheriff's Office's TCR rose 3.9 from 8.3 in 2018 to 12.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 22.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Ventura, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 13.9 · 434% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #47/97
  • PHOTO VPD West Precinct
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 506 inj
  • SIZE ~1,227 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: VPD West Precinct (0.1 TCR gap)

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Ventura County Sheriff's Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ventura County Sheriff's Office averages 13.9 TCR (434% of the Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) BLS benchmark).

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

Ventura County Sheriff's Office TCR series: 2018=8.3 · 2019=6.4 · 2021=20.4 · 2022=22.2 · 2023=12.2 · BLS 3.2

Where Ventura County Sheriff's Office falls in its industry

716 Sheriffs' offices (except cour establishments

Safer than 26% 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 #47 safest of 97 Sheriffs' offices (except cour employers in California.

Ventura County Sheriff's Office (1,227 employees, TCR 13.9) 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 05001,0001,500 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Ventura County Sheriff's Office
Ventura County Sheriff's Office (1,227 employees, TCR 13.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Ventura County Sheriff's Office has more employees than the Sheriffs' offices (except court function 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
2023 12.2 5.6 104 42 0
2022 22.2 13.4 128 126 1
2021 20.4 12.5 118 113 0
2019 6.4 5.5 60 19 0
2018 8.3 7.3 96 7 2

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · CA · Ventura

716 Sheriffs' offices (except court functions only) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 244 employers in Ventura, 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 VPD West Precinct 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Benton County's Law Enforcement 13.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Office of Field Operations - San Diego 13.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-10110) 1,227 FTE
STATE-SIZE Long Point Development, llc dba Terranea Resort 1,227 FTE
STATE-SIZE OAKLAND (CAOAK) 1,228 FTE
STATE-SIZE Microvention 1,229 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 447 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 530 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6292-00000001 2,250 FTE
CITY-NEAR HSA Human Service Agency 1,516 FTE
NAT-TCR USM Store #686 (ALBERTSONS MARKET) 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR CaringEdge Healthcare of Minot 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Energy 1 LLC 13.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Crane's Mill 13.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cyient, Inc. 1,228 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waltham 1,228 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eastside Medical Center 1,226 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phx-Ground Ops 1,228 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018. 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.