TCR, interpreted
Far above average
6.2 avg TCR
State profile · OSHA ITA
California workplace safety
How 51,834 OSHA-reporting employers across California compare on workplace injuries, 2016–2024. Average TCR uses the 45,962 establishments with a credible rate (see methodology).
- 51,834
- Employers
- 6.2
- Avg TCR (rated)
- 1,177,106
- Injuries (all)
- 862
- Fatalities (all)
California vs all states by OSHA-reporting employer count
Where this state's ITA establishment inventory sits among every tracked state and territory (coverage signal, not a safety ranking)
51,834 1st of 54 the highest of 54 states
States and territories, banded by OSHA ITA reporting employer count
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Source official public datasets · 2026
The state picture
California's 45,962 rated 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 · rated subset
- 45,962
- rated employers
- 51,834
- all reporting employers
- 1,177,106
- recordable injuries (all)
Inventory counts and injury/fatality totals cover all 51,834 ITA establishments; the average TCR excludes zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings. See Methodology → Three Populations.
A · 13% B · 10% C · 24% D · 21% F · 31%
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.
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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. The published state average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 6.2 injuries per 100 full-time workers uses the 45,962 establishments with a credible rate (zero-rate and corrupt-hours filings stay in the inventory counts above but are excluded from the average, see methodology).
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 16 of 1033| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trader Joe's 0049 Sherman Oaks | Sherman Oaks | Grocery Store | F | 21.8 |
| 101 | National City | Retail | F | 21.8 |
| 6458-ZARC | Arcadia | Local Messengers and Local D | F | 21.8 |
| 20500002-782 Store 782 - Petaluma | Petaluma | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 21.8 |
| County of Sacramento - Department of Transportation | Sacramento | Road construction | F | 21.8 |
| URDC | Richmond | Salads, fresh or refrigerate | F | 21.8 |
| OPC, Inc. - Modesto | Modesto | Skids and pallets, wood or w | F | 21.8 |
| Expressway Deliveries, Inc. | Carson | Express delivery services (e | F | 21.8 |
| Housing Matters Coral Street Campus | Santa Cruz | Shelters, homeless | F | 21.8 |
| WCA San Diego | La Mesa | Tree services (e.g., bracing | F | 21.7 |
| San Francisco (Casan) | San Francisco | Courier Services Except by A | F | 21.7 |
| Rdc - 49 | Roseville | General Warehousing and Stor | F | 21.7 |
| Los Angeles Police Department, Northeast Division | Los Angeles | Police departments (except A | F | 21.7 |
| Trader Joe's 0104 Cerritos | Cerritos | Grocery Store | F | 21.7 |
| Browning Contractors Inc. | Fresno | Land subdividing and utility | F | 21.7 |
| American Linehaul-LAX | Hawthorne | Trucking, general freight, l | F | 21.7 |
| 6458-ZBKF | Shafter | Local Messengers and Local D | F | 21.7 |
| San Joaquin County Department of Parks and Recreation | Stockton | Parks and recreation commiss | F | 21.7 |
| Micro Surface Engr., Inc. | Los Angeles | Ball bearings manufacturing | F | 21.7 |
| 34370451--Golden State Fc Ll-Oak4 1555 | Tracy | - | F | 21.7 |
| Dodge Ridge Mountain Resort LLC | Pinecrest | Alpine skiing facilities wit | F | 21.7 |
| Systems Plus Lumber Co. Inc. | Anderson | Floor trusses, wood, manufac | F | 21.7 |
| Merrill Gardens at Rolling Hills Estates | Rolling Hills Estates | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 21.7 |
| 9215-BUR | Burbank | Ground Handler | F | 21.7 |
| FedEx 1425 CORPORATE CENTER DRIVE | San Diego | Courier and Express Delivery | F | 21.7 |
| Sierra Pacific Distibution Services 770 | Modesto | Refrigerated warehousing | F | 21.7 |
| Trader Joe's 0121 Torrance (Hawthorne) | Torrance (Hawthorne) | Grocery Store | F | 21.7 |
| JRE Logistics, LLC | National City | Express delivery services (e | F | 21.7 |
| City Of Sacramento-Urban Forestry Roll-Up (150018) | Sacramento | Landscaping Services | F | 21.7 |
| Armstrong Garden Centers 716 | Encinitas | Garden centers | F | 21.6 |
| Northern Region : Btu | Oroville | CAL FIRE | F | 21.6 |
| WILMINGTON_1387844 | Wilmington | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 21.6 |
| 920080001 | Carlsbad | Transportation Air Cargo | F | 21.6 |
| Cozzini Bros, Inc. - Cerritos | Cerritos | All Other Consumer Goods Ren | F | 21.6 |
| Cost Plus World Market LAKEWOOD 6034 | Lakewood | - | F | 21.6 |
| 689 | Palm Springs | Hotels (except casino hotels | F | 21.6 |
| OCSD Inmate Services Division - Commissionary | Anaheim | OC Sheriff's Department | F | 21.6 |
| Store 2145 | Brentwood | General Merchandise Stores | F | 21.6 |
| Paolino Logistics LLC | Ontario | Logistics Company | F | 21.6 |
| Gold Quartz Retirement Inn | Sutter Creek | Assisted-living facilities w | F | 21.6 |
| Village Inn Owners Assn dba: Olympic Village Inn | Olympic Valley | Tourist lodges | F | 21.6 |
| Brea 7 | Brea | Grocery stores | F | 21.6 |
| Cen Cal Builders and Developers Inc. | Clovis | Construction management, com | F | 21.6 |
| Greenridge Post Acute Care | El Sobrante | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 21.6 |
| 1080 | Oakland | MOTELS/HOTELS | F | 21.6 |
| Bristol Farms La Cumbre | Santa Barbara | Commissaries, primarily groc | F | 21.5 |
| Snyir Inc. | Sacramento | Used household and office go | F | 21.5 |
| 738 | Santa Ana | MOTELS/HOTELS | F | 21.5 |
| Hilltop Middle School | Chula Vista | Social workers' , mental hea | F | 21.5 |
| 4795-Pd-Sbp-San Luis Obispo-Sbp-Pdmt | San Luis Obispo | Scheduled Passenger Air Tran | F | 21.5 |
Nationwide states with similar injury rates or employer scale
Two PlainSafetyScore-derived peer sets for California: nearest states and territories by rated-subset average Total Case Rate and by OSHA-reporting employer inventory. These are cross-state neighborhoods, not the employer list above.
Similar average TCR
Nearest states by rated-subset Total Case Rate (6.2 here).
Similar employer inventory
Nearest states by reporting employer count (51,834 here).
Look up a California employer → · Compare all states → · How TCR is measured →
Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.
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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore
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.