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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)

TCR, interpreted

Far above average

6.2 avg TCR

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.

California grade distribution 51,812 graded establishments · width = share

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 TCR

California'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

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Employer CityIndustryGradeAvg TCR
Five Points CA Five Points Farm Supplies Merchant Whole B 1.1
Warehouse Los Angeles Colognes merchant wholesaler B 1.1
DGS Aviation Services : BFL - Bakersfield Bfl - Bakersfield Support Activities for Air T A 1.1
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Poway Campus Poway Aircraft manufacturing A 1.1
County of Ventura - CEO Ventura County supervisors' and exec A 1.1
Oakmont Management Group Windsor Assisted-living facilities w A 1.1
Garratt-Callahan Company Burlingame Antiscaling compounds manufa A 1.1
La Kretz Innovation Campus Los Angeles Electrip Power Distribution C 1.1
The Walt Disney Company - Corporate Burbank Film studios producing films D 1.1
12336 S. Union Ave Bakersfield, Ca 93307 Bakersfield Hay mowing, raking, baling, A 1.1
Central Caifornia Castroville Drywall contractors A 1.1
Ocean Park Center San Francisco Residential Mental Health an A 1.1
Stockton RTS Stockton - A 1.1
Stockton Interior Stockton Doors, wood and covered wood A 1.1
Ruan Transport Corp T501 RTC Richmond Freight Transportation A 1.1
199-CA-Engineering Design Center Irvine HDQ Office A 1.1
OHL USA INC- CA ALL locations Irvine Pavement, highway, road, str A 1.1
2807-0210X Millbrae Hardware Stores A 1.1
A-1 All American Roofing WLA Inc Paramount Asphalt roof shingle install A 1.1
Mesa - Sacramento West Sacramento HVAC (heating, ventilation a A 1.1
Pete Moffat Construction, Inc Palo Alto Addition, alteration and ren A 1.1
Verne's Plumbing, Inc. Buena Park Pipe fitting contractors A 1.1
Sodexo at Sharp Grossmont Hospital Pom La Mesa Facilities Support Services A 1.1
Sierra Pacific Refrigerated Services Patterson Cold storage warehousing A 1.1
NGSP-CA66 Vandenberg Sfb Aerospace Manufacturer A 1.1
SOLEX Contracting, Inc. Temecula Cellular phone tower constru A 1.1
Swan Engineering Inc. Rocklin Construction management, wat A 1.1
Downey Ca -9459 Washburn Road Downey Fasteners (e.g., bolts, nuts B 1.1
Moonlight Cold Storage Inc. Plant 6 Reedley Packaging fresh or farm-drie A 1.1
Valley Hi Family Resource Center Sacramento Community social service pro A 1.1
Lorian Health San Diego Corporate San Diego Home health agencies A 1.1
101 - Orange Branch Orange - B 1.1
Duraflame, Inc. Stockton Buoys, cork, manufacturing A 1.1
SJJC FBO Services LLC San Jose Aircraft hangar rental A 1.1
PCI Bay Area Scaffold Berkley Scaffold erecting and disman A 1.1
Paso Robles Tank, Inc Paso Robles Fabricated plate work manufa A 1.1
Sand Ranch Helm Grape farming without making A 1.1
Bolthouse Bakersfield Bakersfield Beverages, fruit and vegetab A 1.1
Headquarters-0032 Ladera Ranch Equity real estate investmen C 1.1
4818-CNCS Union City Alcoholic beverage, wine, an B 1.1
Head Quarters Pasadena Developmentally disabled adv B 1.1
Wellex Corporation Fremont Printed circuit assemblies m A 1.1
Sharp Health Plan San Diego Healthcare Provider A 1.1
Tracy Combined Cycle Power Plant Tracy Electric power generation, f C 1.1
CA.IRVIN.59 - Ricoh Usa, Inc. Irvine Office Equipment B 1.1
Ross store 648 La Quinta Retail Store A 1.1
Prime Electric San Jose Electrical contractors A 1.1
Gateway Landscape Construction, Inc. Dublin Landscape contractors (excep A 1.1
South Bay Cable Corp. - Idyllwild Idyllwild Cable, nonferrous, insulated A 1.1
Assemi Group, Inc. Fresno Investment management F 1.1
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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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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.