Water treatment and distribution · California

Alvarado Water Treatment Plant

La Mesa, CA · ~177 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Alvarado Water Treatment Plant runs at 341% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water treatment and distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

Alvarado Water Treatment Plant: 4.1 TCR = 341% of Water treatment and distribution BLS 1.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alvarado Water Treatment Plant safety composite

Alvarado Water Treatment Plant scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

Alvarado Water Treatment Plant: 3.5 → 4.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2018

Alvarado Water Treatment Plant's TCR rose 1.2 from 3.5 in 2017 to 4.7 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · La Mesa, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 4.1 · 341% of ind

  • DART 4.7 DART
  • RANK #69/176
  • PHOTO Aqua Pennsylvania, I…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~177 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc. - Springfield (0.0 TCR gap)

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Alvarado Water Treatment Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Alvarado Water Treatment Plant averages 4.1 TCR (341% of the Water treatment and distribution BLS benchmark).

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

Alvarado Water Treatment Plant TCR series: 2017=3.5 · 2018=4.7 · BLS 1.2

Where Alvarado Water Treatment Plant falls in its industry

727 Water treatment and distributi establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #69 safest of 176 Water treatment and distributi employers in California.

Alvarado Water Treatment Plant (177 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Alvarado Water Treatment Plant
Alvarado Water Treatment Plant (177 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Alvarado Water Treatment Plant has more employees than the Water treatment and distribution median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 4.7 4.7 8 0 0
2017 3.5 2.9 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · CA · La Mesa

727 Water treatment and distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 85 employers in La Mesa, 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 Aqua Pennsylvania, Inc. - Springfield 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Operations 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Des Moines Water Works 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Jersey American Water- Lawnside 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Almond Company LP 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Water District 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE BNBuilders.Inc LA/OC 177 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grossmont Hospital - 5555 Grossmont Center Drive 3,453 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grossmont Hospital 3,275 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0469 - LA MESA CA WHSE 365 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of La Mesa 345 FTE
NAT-TCR Heartland Health Care Center - Briarwood 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlanta CPC 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Midsun Group Inc 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakewest SNF Operations, LLC D/B/A Lakewest Rehabilitation and Skilled Care 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Atrium Staffing 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amh-300 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Janssen Ortho LLC - Manati 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central Office 177 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.