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 60 of 1033| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imperial Heights Healthcare | Brawley | Skilled Nursing Facility | F | 15.2 |
| Westside Pavilion | Los Angeles | Janitorial Contractor | F | 15.2 |
| Hakes Sash & Door, Inc. | Lake Elsinore | Trim and finish carpentry co | F | 15.2 |
| CAL010 | Pasadena | Tire Dealers | F | 15.2 |
| Steiner Street_1383497 | San Francisco | Mail and Parcel Delivery | F | 15.2 |
| 005 - Florin | Sacramento | Retail | F | 15.2 |
| Lyon & Lyon, Inc. | San Diego | Apartment hotel rental or le | F | 15.2 |
| Trader Joe's 0037 Irvine | Irvine | Grocery Store | F | 15.2 |
| Royal Oak Hotel | San Luis Obispo | Hotel management services (i | F | 15.2 |
| 6962-SWY-0025-0025-00300 | Scotts Valley | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 15.2 |
| 6962-SWY-0025-0025-03116 | S San Francisco | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 15.2 |
| 3495-11DA906 | Sun Valley | Medical Equipment | F | 15.2 |
| WCTS-ITS-Husky (Tacoma) | San Pedro | Stevedoring services | F | 15.2 |
| Nursing Care Facility | Canoga Park | Nursing homes | F | 15.1 |
| Solid Concrete Service, Inc. | Menlo Park | Footing and foundation concr | F | 15.1 |
| First Student | Richmond | Bus operation, school and em | F | 15.1 |
| 6962-SWY-0025-0025-02669 | Carmel | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 15.1 |
| Arbor Place | Lodi | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 15.1 |
| California Correctional Health Care Services (091) Southern Region | Bakersfield | Correctional institutions | F | 15.1 |
| 960 | Redding | Couriers and express deliver | F | 15.1 |
| 5929 | Chino | Couriers and express deliver | F | 15.1 |
| Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Tustin | Tustin | Rehabilitation hospitals (ex | F | 15.1 |
| Keefe Group LA County | Los Angeles | General merchandise, nondura | F | 15.1 |
| Los Angeles Police Department, Rampart Division | Los Angeles | Police departments (except A | F | 15.1 |
| Police Main Station | Anaheim | Police departments (except A | F | 15.1 |
| Sterling Tasting Room | Calistoga | Wine shops, packaged | F | 15.1 |
| 6962-SWY-0025-0025-01505 | Gilroy | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 15.1 |
| Main Office | San Bernardino | Cellular phone tower constru | F | 15.1 |
| Sodexo at Sacramento Job Corps | Sacramento | Food Service Contractors | F | 15.1 |
| 6962-ABS-0029-0028-00336 | Bakersfield | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 15.1 |
| Costa View Farms 2 (Madera) | Madera | Dairy Farm | F | 15.1 |
| Artesia Christian Home, Inc. | Artesia | Skilled nursing facilities | F | 15.1 |
| Staypineapple Union Square | San Francisco | Hotels (except casino hotels | F | 15.1 |
| Sol-tek Industries, Inc. | Clovis | Power generation, solar elec | F | 15.1 |
| 6962-SWY-0029-0029-01797 | San Diego | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 15.1 |
| Kia-Kia Parcel Service LLC | Antioch | Air courier services (except | F | 15.1 |
| City of Tulare | Tulare | General services departments | F | 15.1 |
| WCA Stockton | Stockton | Tree services (e.g., bracing | F | 15.1 |
| Performance Building Services | Lake Forest | Building cleaning services, | F | 15.1 |
| Sandberg Furniture | Los Angeles | Bedroom furniture (except up | F | 15.1 |
| CAN007 | Sacramento | Tire Dealers | F | 15.1 |
| Crane Worldwide - LAX5 (Commerce) | Commerce | Freight forwarding | F | 15.1 |
| Big Lots Store #4760 Madera, CA | Madera | Retail Other | F | 15.1 |
| 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02655 | Los Angeles | Supermarkets and Other Groce | F | 15.1 |
| Central Programs | Berkeley | Retailers' associations | F | 15.1 |
| Cleveland Pool | Reseda | - | F | 15.1 |
| Wizard Manufacturing LLC | Chico | Harvesting machinery and equ | F | 15.1 |
| Culver City - CA | Culver City | Home health care agencies | F | 15.1 |
| LQ0169 Fremont / Silicon Valley | Fremont | Hospitality | F | 15.1 |
| Tokyo Central & Main - Pacific & Ck | Gardena | Grocery stores | F | 15.1 |
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.