Hotels (except casino hotels) · California

Best Western Plus Capitola By-the-Sea Inn & Suites

Capitola, CA · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.0
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Best Western Plus Capitola By-the-Sea Inn & Suites runs at 433% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hotels (except casino hotels) workplace, earning a grade F.

Best Western Plus Capitola By-the-Sea Inn & Suites: 13.0 TCR = 433% of Hotels (except casino hotels) BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Best Western Plus Capitola By-the-Sea Inn & Suites safety composite

Best Western Plus Capitola By-the-Sea Inn & Suites scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Best Western Plus Capitola By-the-Sea Inn & Suites: 12.5 → 13.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 13.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.52× in 2018

Best Western Plus Capitola By-the-Sea Inn & Suites's TCR rose 0.9 from 12.5 in 2017 to 13.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 721110 · Capitola, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.0 · 433% of ind

  • DART 6.7 DART
  • RANK #1012/1298
  • PHOTO Hotel Caza
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hotel Caza (0.0 TCR gap)

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Best Western Plus Capitola By-the-Sea Inn & Suites in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Best Western Plus Capitola By-the-Sea Inn & Suites averages 13.0 TCR (433% of the Hotels (except casino hotels) BLS benchmark).

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

Best Western Plus Capitola By-the-Sea Inn & Suites TCR series: 2017=12.5 · 2018=13.4 · BLS 3.0

Where Best Western Plus Capitola By-the-Sea Inn & Suites falls in its industry

9,342 Hotels (except casino hotels) establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1012 safest of 1298 Hotels (except casino hotels) employers in California.

Best Western Plus Capitola By-the-Sea Inn & Suites (25 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Best Western Plus Capitola By-the-Sea Inn & Suites
Best Western Plus Capitola By-the-Sea Inn & Suites (25 employees, TCR 13.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Best Western Plus Capitola By-the-Sea Inn & Suites has fewer employees than the Hotels (except casino hotels) median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 13.4 6.7 2 0 0
2017 12.5 6.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

721110 · CA · Capitola

9,342 Hotels (except casino hotels) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 29 employers in Capitola, 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 Hotel Caza 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sonesta ES Suites Denver South 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1294 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hyatt Residence Club, Carmel 13.0 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 2795 - Capitola 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR Capitola Gayle's Inc. 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR Capitola 364 143 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toyota of Santa Cruz 141 FTE
NAT-TCR Karcher Foster Services 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 424 ABC Supply Co., inc 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Frisco Memory Care, LLC 13.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Black Dog Salvage 13.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE CQC Dental Lab 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Composites One LLC - Ft Worth 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE P2 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE 740 Stanton Park Rd. Canyonville, OR 97417 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.

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

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