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 734 of 1033| Employer | City | Industry | Grade | Avg TCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irvine FS (SSS,CSS) | Irvine | Security alarm systems sales | C | 2.1 |
| Big Lots Store #4155 ALHAMBRA, CA | Alhambra | Retail Other | B | 2.1 |
| AM Ortega (Lakeside) | Lakeside | Excavation contractors | B | 2.1 |
| Big Saver Foods #13 | Bellflower | Grocery Stores | B | 2.1 |
| 351 La Mesa, Ca | La Mesa | Family Clothing Stores | B | 2.1 |
| One Big Outlet | City of Industry | General warehousing and stor | A | 2.1 |
| Bland Company | Bakersfield | Low voltage electrical work | B | 2.1 |
| 2050-917 | Simi Valley | Grocery | B | 2.1 |
| Disabled American Veteran Enterprises Sweeping & Trucking | Fresno | General freight trucking, lo | A | 2.1 |
| Farwest Safety, Inc. | Lodi | Sign erection, highway, road | B | 2.1 |
| United Ag Personnel Management Inc. | Tulare | Farm labor contractors | A | 2.1 |
| The Nevell Group | Brea | Commercial building construc | B | 2.1 |
| Penske : 5378-00 Kraft-DCM-REF/Stockton, CA | Stockton | DCM | A | 2.1 |
| Unit # 1417 | Arcadia | Retail | B | 2.1 |
| Mission Bell Winery | Madera | Winery | B | 2.1 |
| Panavision Hollywood | Hollywood | Motion picture cameras manuf | B | 2.1 |
| Claudina | Anaheim | Automobile merchant wholesal | C | 2.1 |
| Disney Human Resources Services Co., LLC | Burbank | - | F | 2.1 |
| Corona depot | Corona | Bakery products, fresh (i.e. | B | 2.1 |
| Austal USA LLC Sdca | San Diego | Naval ship building | B | 2.1 |
| GGTW, LLC dba South Bay Salt Works | Chula Vista | Salt (except table) manufact | B | 2.1 |
| JD Firestop Pros, Inc | Tracy | Firestop contractors | B | 2.1 |
| Jurupa Valley Terminal | Jurupa Valley | General freight trucking, lo | A | 2.1 |
| CDCR CCHCS Northern Region - 064 | Elk Grove | Correctional institutions | B | 2.1 |
| imperial beach grocery outlet | Imperial Beach | Grocery stores | B | 2.1 |
| Cattlemens 02 | Petaluma | Family restaurants, full ser | B | 2.1 |
| HORIBA Instruments Incorporated - Medical | 9755 Research Drive | Laboratory equipment, dental | C | 2.1 |
| Amistad Ranches | Courtland | Agriculture production or ha | A | 2.1 |
| California Payroll Group | Agoura Hills | Car washes | C | 2.1 |
| Mira Loma B26 | Mira Loma | Private warehousing and stor | A | 2.1 |
| Riverside Ca - Jurupa | Riverside | Commercial Printer | B | 2.1 |
| North West Urgent Care | Fresno | General medical and surgical | A | 2.1 |
| LAUP | Commerce | Loading and unloading servic | A | 2.1 |
| Western Pacific Roofing- Palmdale | Palmdale | Low slope roofing installati | B | 2.1 |
| Stryker Jr- Anaheim, CA | Anaheim | Orthopedic devices manufactu | B | 2.1 |
| Los Angeles | Simi Valley | Base facilities operation su | C | 2.1 |
| Upland | Upland | Athletic club facilities, ph | B | 2.1 |
| Danone North America - City of Industry | City of Industry | Milk, fluid (except canned), | B | 2.1 |
| Hawthorne | Hawthorne | Metal products (e.g., bars, | C | 2.1 |
| System Support Center | Oakland | General medical and surgical | A | 2.1 |
| Little Sisters Truck Wash | Thousand Palms | Truck and bus washes | C | 2.1 |
| SD - 2515 Camino del Rio S, SD | San Diego | Social service centers, mult | B | 2.1 |
| 726 - Chula Vista East | Chula Vista | - | B | 2.1 |
| 6443-548762 | Long Beach | Other Residential Care Facil | B | 2.1 |
| Cal Electro, Inc. | Redding | Electric contracting | B | 2.1 |
| Puratos Rancho Cucmonga | Rancho Cucamonga | Warehousing and storage, gen | A | 2.1 |
| 6962-Swy 0025 0936 | Walnut Creek | Supermarkets and Other Groce | B | 2.1 |
| Manteca - PRW | Manteca | - | A | 2.1 |
| Gene Pumping Plant | Parker Dam | Water treatment and distribu | D | 2.1 |
| NLACRC - San Fernando | Chatsworth | Social service centers, mult | B | 2.1 |
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).
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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.