Department Stores · California

838 - Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA · ~45 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

838 - Santa Barbara runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Department Stores workplace, earning a grade D.

838 - Santa Barbara: 4.4 TCR = 129% of Department Stores BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

838 - Santa Barbara safety composite

838 - Santa Barbara scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.8

2016→2018

838 - Santa Barbara injury rate improved

838 - Santa Barbara's TCR fell 8.8 from 8.8 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.8 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.8 · 2018=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 452111 · Santa Barbara, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 129% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #82/182
  • PHOTO STR0691
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: STR0691 (0.0 TCR gap)

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838 - Santa Barbara in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 838 - Santa Barbara averages 4.4 TCR (129% of the Department Stores BLS benchmark).

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

838 - Santa Barbara TCR series: 2016=8.8 · 2018=0 · BLS 3.4

Where 838 - Santa Barbara falls in its industry

1,987 Department Stores establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #82 safest of 182 Department Stores employers in California.

838 - Santa Barbara (45 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 838 - Santa Barbara
838 - Santa Barbara (45 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 46 employees and a TCR of 3.3

838 - Santa Barbara has fewer employees than the Department Stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 8.8 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

452111 · CA · Santa Barbara

1,987 Department Stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 173 employers in Santa Barbara, 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 STR0691 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit # 1068 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit # 1101 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Unit # 1165 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Salinas Transplant Company 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terra Firma Farm 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Donald Beeman Farm 45 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berry Mist Farms, LP 45 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Santa Barbara 10,779 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital 3,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Santa Barbara 1,587 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Green Santa Barbara 674 FTE
NAT-TCR 0140 - Harrisburg, Pa 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Upsco Airline Hangar (Kyalh) 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Seagoville 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mercy Restorative Care 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clean Venture Inc. - Clayton 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Bridge Company 45 FTE
NAT-SIZE Maples Farm & Garden Center 45 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.