Solar Panel Installation · California

110-CA-San Luis Obispo

San Luis Obispo, CA · ~36 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

110-CA-San Luis Obispo runs at 218% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Solar Panel Installation workplace, earning a grade F.

110-CA-San Luis Obispo: 6.1 TCR = 218% of Solar Panel Installation BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

110-CA-San Luis Obispo safety composite

110-CA-San Luis Obispo scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

110-CA-San Luis Obispo: 5.6 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

110-CA-San Luis Obispo's TCR rose 1.1 from 5.6 in 2017 to 6.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · San Luis Obispo, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.1 · 218% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #428/548
  • PHOTO 4802_10943
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 4802_10943 (0.0 TCR gap)

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110-CA-San Luis Obispo in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows 110-CA-San Luis Obispo averages 6.1 TCR (218% of the Solar Panel Installation BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

110-CA-San Luis Obispo TCR series: 2017=5.6 · 2018=6.7 · BLS 2.8

Where 110-CA-San Luis Obispo falls in its industry

4,550 Solar Panel Installation establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #428 safest of 548 Solar Panel Installation employers in California.

110-CA-San Luis Obispo (36 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 110-CA-San Luis Obispo
110-CA-San Luis Obispo (36 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

110-CA-San Luis Obispo has fewer employees than the Solar Panel Installation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2018 6.7 0.0 3 0 0
2017 5.6 5.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · CA · San Luis Obispo

4,550 Solar Panel Installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 177 employers in San Luis Obispo, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR 4802_10943 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR G&G Electric Inc 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Power Home Solar- Concord 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fullford Electric, Inc 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE River Garden Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knight Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.H. MEEK & SONS INC. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dirt Farmer and Company 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bella Vista Transitional Care Center 8,119 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Men's Colony - San Luis Obispo 1,599 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Men's Colony 1,482 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 279 946 FTE
NAT-TCR Indiana Veneer 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR REN086 Springfield 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Roundtop Mountain Resort 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR G. Proulx Building Products 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Rbco 13 Mo Dpso 90-13-01-90 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE 800 - Harrisburg 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE 600 - Allentown 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Textile Services 36 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.