Irrigation project construction (except lawn) · California

Agua Link

Santa Maria, CA · ~18 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Agua Link runs at 427% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Irrigation project construction (except lawn) workplace, earning a grade F.

Agua Link: 11.9 TCR = 427% of Irrigation project construction (except lawn) BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Agua Link safety composite

Agua Link scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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).

F

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Agua Link: 7.3 → 17.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 29.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.47× in 2023

Agua Link's TCR rose 9.7 from 7.3 in 2017 to 17.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 29.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Santa Maria, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.9 · 427% of ind

  • DART 5.7 DART
  • RANK #195/201
  • PHOTO Metro Equipment Serv…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Metro Equipment Service Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Agua Link in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Agua Link averages 11.9 TCR (427% of the Irrigation project construction (except lawn) BLS benchmark).

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

Agua Link TCR series: 2017=7.3 · 2018=6.6 · 2019=5.4 · 2020=6.3 · 2021=11.6 · 2022=29.5 · 2023=17 · BLS 2.8

Where Agua Link falls in its industry

1,614 Irrigation project constructio establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #195 safest of 201 Irrigation project constructio employers in California.

Agua Link (18 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Agua Link
Agua Link (18 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Agua Link has fewer employees than the Irrigation project construction (except median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2023 17.0 5.7 2 1 0
2022 29.5 16.9 7 0 0
2021 11.6 5.8 1 1 0
2020 6.3 6.3 1 0 0
2019 5.4 5.4 1 0 0
2018 6.6 6.6 2 0 0
2017 7.3 3.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · CA · Santa Maria

1,614 Irrigation project construction (except lawn) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 280 employers in Santa Maria, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Metro Equipment Service Inc 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR QRC, INC. 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR United Enterprise, LLC 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR WVWA Field Operations 12.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Henry Hibino Farms LLC 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE BATAVIA, INC. 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gold Coast Farms 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE HM.CLAUSE Davis East Research Station 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rancho Nuevo Harvesting, Inc. 2,290 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030364 2,110 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030364-364001 MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,074 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marian Regional Medical Center 2,021 FTE
NAT-TCR Madison Lumber and Hardware 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Production Facility 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Homewood at Martinsburg PA, Inc. 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Somerset 11.9 TCR

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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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