Archeological sites (i.e., public display) · California

Applied EarthWorks, Inc. San Luis Obispo

San Luis Obispo, CA · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Applied EarthWorks, Inc. San Luis Obispo runs at 135% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Archeological sites (i.e., public display) workplace, earning a grade D.

Applied EarthWorks, Inc. San Luis Obispo: 4.2 TCR = 135% of Archeological sites (i.e., public display) BLS 3.1 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Applied EarthWorks, Inc. San Luis Obispo safety composite

Applied EarthWorks, Inc. San Luis Obispo scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

Applied EarthWorks, Inc. San Luis Obispo: 0.0 → 8.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

Applied EarthWorks, Inc. San Luis Obispo's TCR rose 8.4 from 0.0 in 2017 to 8.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 712120 · San Luis Obispo, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 135% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P43
  • PHOTO Patriots Point Naval…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum (0.1 TCR gap)

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Applied EarthWorks, Inc. San Luis Obispo in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Applied EarthWorks, Inc. San Luis Obispo averages 4.2 TCR (135% of the Archeological sites (i.e., public display) BLS benchmark).

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

Applied EarthWorks, Inc. San Luis Obispo TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=8.4 · BLS 3.1

Where Applied EarthWorks, Inc. San Luis Obispo falls in its industry

23 Archeological sites (i.e., pub establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Applied EarthWorks, Inc. San Luis Obispo (25 employees, TCR 4.2) among 14 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 3.9 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 15 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Applied EarthWorks, Inc. San Luis Obispo
Applied EarthWorks, Inc. San Luis Obispo (25 employees, TCR 4.2) among 14 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Applied EarthWorks, Inc. San Luis Obispo has fewer employees than the Archeological sites (i.e., public displa median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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 8.4 0.0 0 1 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

712120 · CA · San Luis Obispo

23 Archeological sites (i.e., public display) 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 Patriots Point Naval and Maritime Museum 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Historic Charleston Foundation 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Edsel and Eleanor Ford House 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Conservation Farms Ranches 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE GM Ag Services, Inc. 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farm Shop 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dougherty Brothers 25 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 Moser's Foods #8 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR New Orleans Downtown (HH) 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Pete Moore Hospice House 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Linde - Catano, PR 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bettendorf Branch 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Accella Polyurethane Chattanooga 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Futurex Industries - Coop 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Country Pork LLP 25 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.