State profile · OSHA ITA
California workplace safety
How 51,834 OSHA-reporting employers across California compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024.
- 51,834
- Employers
- 6.2
- Avg TCR
- 1,177,106
- Injuries
- 862
- Fatalities
The state picture
California's reporting employers average 6.2 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 2.3 times the ~2.7 all-industry private-sector norm.
- 6.2
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 51,834
- employers reporting
- 1,177,106
- recordable injuries
- 862
- worker fatalities
State average reflects each state's industry mix. Sort the table below by each employer's own grade against its industry benchmark.
31% of California's reporting establishments earn an F and 13% an A, each measured against its own industry benchmark, not the state line. These grades are a transparent derived index, not an official OSHA rating; see the Methodology for the exact formula.
Where California ranks among states
54 states & territories by avg TCRCalifornia's average TCR of 6.2 is lower than 17% of states, a state average reflects industry mix as much as workplace safety.
How California Workplaces Compare
California hosts 51,834 employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. These are not small shops: federal rules require ITA submission from workplaces with 250+ employees in any industry, plus workplaces with 20+ employees in the roughly 60 NAICS codes classified as high-hazard (construction, manufacturing, healthcare, warehousing, agriculture, and others). Across this California cohort, workers have logged 1,177,106 recordable injuries, producing a state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 6.2 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year during 2016–2024.
The state has recorded 862 workplace fatalities in the reporting window, which is tracked separately from non-fatal injury counts because fatal events have their own investigation trail under 29 CFR 1904.39. Reading state-level TCR requires context: the headline figure is driven by a state's industry mix. A state with a heavy construction, logging, or meatpacking footprint will mechanically post higher TCR than a state dominated by finance or professional services, even when individual employers are equally well-managed. That is why the employer table below sorts each establishment by its own TCR and letter grade, against the BLS benchmark for its specific industry, not against the state average.
For jobseekers, relocators, investors, and local safety professionals, state-level pages function as an entry point: use the grade-sorted list to spot the safest and highest-risk employers in California, then click through to an individual establishment for its year-by-year injury, illness, DART, and fatality trajectory. Compare multiple years before drawing conclusions, a single outlier year can reflect a specific event, whereas a sustained pattern across reporting cycles is a more reliable risk signal. All data comes directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries. State OSHA plans in 22 states operate their own enforcement programs in parallel, but the injury data above is harmonized through the federal ITA system.
Employers in California, by injury rate
Page 133 of 1033| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Osso Good, LLC | Fresno | Soups, seafood, manufacturin | F | 11.1 |
| TCSO Dt Bob Wiley | Visalia | Detention centers | F | 11.1 |
| Lodi Farming, Inc. | Stockton | Fruit and tree nut combinati | F | 11.1 |
| Larder Baking Company | Los Angeles | BAKERY | F | 11.1 |
| CAN016 | Gilroy | Tire Dealers | F | 11.1 |
| 3690_7059 | Turlock | - | F | 11.1 |
| 1548 - Corona | Corona | Discount Department Stores | F | 11.1 |
| Friedmans Home Improvement Sonoma Store | Sonoma | HARDWARE STORES | F | 11.1 |
| Sauder Global Sourcing | Jurupa Valley | Furniture (except drafting t | F | 11.1 |
| Savannah Distribution Center | Midway | Warehousing and storage, gen | D | 11.1 |
| Windsor Gardens Conv Ctr San Diego | National City | Skilled nursing facilities | D | 11.1 |
| 6962-ABS-0029-0028-00734 | Murrieta | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 11.1 |
| 6962-SWY-0025-0025-00705 | Mountain View | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 11.1 |
| 058232-Walnut Po | Walnut | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.1 |
| 056737-Sdc-Pacific Beach Sta | San Diego | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.1 |
| el super #27 south gate | South Gate | Grocery stores | F | 11.1 |
| Watermark By the Bay | Emeryville | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 11.1 |
| Bowcon Company, Inc. | San Diego | Cabin construction general c | F | 11.1 |
| Wave Division Holdings LLC San Francisco | San Francisco | Internet service providers, | F | 11.1 |
| Sunshine Floral, LLC | Oxnard | Agricultural Cut Flowers | F | 11.1 |
| Orange County Conservation Corps | Anaheim | Recyclable material collecti | F | 11.1 |
| E. G. Ayers Distributing Inc. | Eureka | General-line groceries merch | F | 11.1 |
| Enterprise Vineyards | Sonoma | Grape farming without making | F | 11.1 |
| Vista Prado, Inc. | Vallejo | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 11.1 |
| Verasa Management LLC | Napa | Hotels, resort, without casi | F | 11.1 |
| 6962-SWY-0025-0025-00975 | Fortuna | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 11.1 |
| 4263-2984 | Downey | Hotels | F | 11.1 |
| 1359 | Livermore | MOTELS/HOTELS | F | 11.1 |
| D&J Packing LLC PO Box 130 Castroville Ca 95012 | Castroville | Farm labor contractors | F | 11.1 |
| BP Gaxy | Richmond | Bakery products, dry (e.g., | F | 11.1 |
| Tractor Supply Company Store 1785 | Tehachapi | General Merchandise Stores | F | 11.1 |
| Access Senior Home Care, Inc. | Lodi | Home health care agencies | F | 11.1 |
| 0914 - Rancho Santa Margarita | Rancho Santa Margarita | Discount Department Stores | F | 11.1 |
| Knights Grapevine Nursery | Olivehurst | Grape farming without making | F | 11.1 |
| Glass Onion Catering | Richmond | Food processing plant constr | F | 11.1 |
| Minimus | Newbury Park | Sales | F | 11.1 |
| 69030006-46 Cardenas Markets 46 | Banning | Retail Grocery | F | 11.1 |
| Abbyson -Redlands | Redlands | Furniture (except drafting t | F | 11.1 |
| Precision Framing Systems Inc | Murrieta | Framing contractors | F | 11.1 |
| Sodexo at St. Vincents Med Ctr-Es-Ca | Los Angeles | Building Cleaning/Maintenanc | F | 11.1 |
| DeBernardi Bros | Santa Maria | farming | F | 11.1 |
| 2879_5587 | Los Angeles | - | F | 11.1 |
| Monterey Embassy Suites | Seaside | Hotels and Motels | F | 11.1 |
| 056727-Sbc-Uptown Sta | San Bernardino | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 11.1 |
| Store #14 | Tiburon | Grocery stores | F | 11.1 |
| Amzl : Dsf3 | San Jose | General Warehousing and Stor | D | 11.1 |
| Lusa Sd, Lp | San Diego | Landscape care and maintenan | F | 11.1 |
| Corporate | Sherman Oaks | Property managing, residenti | F | 11.1 |
| Hondo Framing Inc. | Redlands | Carpentry, framing | F | 11.1 |
| Trader Joe's 0233 Rcho Palos Verdes | Rcho Palos Verdes | Grocery Store | F | 11.1 |
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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What California's safety record means for you
California averages a TCR of 6.2 - about 2.3× the ~2.7 national private-sector norm. A state average hides wide employer-by-employer variation.
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State averages use the credible-subset mean across reporting establishments; they are statistical summaries, not regulatory assessments.
Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.