Hotels (except casino hotels) · California

Best Western Plus Novato Oaks Inn

Novato, CA · ~35 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.2
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Best Western Plus Novato Oaks Inn runs at 341% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Hotels (except casino hotels) workplace, earning a grade F.

Best Western Plus Novato Oaks Inn: 10.2 TCR = 341% of Hotels (except casino hotels) BLS 3.0 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Best Western Plus Novato Oaks Inn safety composite

Best Western Plus Novato Oaks Inn scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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 Novato Oaks Inn: 9.7 → 22.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 22.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.34× in 2024

Best Western Plus Novato Oaks Inn's TCR rose 13.2 from 9.7 in 2017 to 22.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.2 · 341% of ind

  • DART 13.7 DART
  • RANK #847/1298
  • PHOTO Hilton Garden Inn Ya…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Hilton Garden Inn Yakima (0.0 TCR gap)

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Best Western Plus Novato Oaks Inn in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Best Western Plus Novato Oaks Inn averages 10.2 TCR (341% 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 Novato Oaks Inn TCR series: 2017=9.7 · 2018=9.5 · 2020=16.4 · 2021=0 · 2022=4.4 · 2023=8.6 · 2024=22.9 · BLS 3.0

Where Best Western Plus Novato Oaks Inn falls in its industry

9,342 Hotels (except casino hotels) establishments

Safer than 14% 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 #847 safest of 1298 Hotels (except casino hotels) employers in California.

Best Western Plus Novato Oaks Inn (35 employees, TCR 10.2) 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 Novato Oaks Inn
Best Western Plus Novato Oaks Inn (35 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Best Western Plus Novato Oaks Inn 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
2024 22.9 13.7 5 0 0
2023 8.6 4.3 2 0 0
2022 4.4 4.4 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 16.4 10.9 1 2 0
2018 9.5 6.3 3 0 0
2017 9.7 9.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

721110 · CA · Novato

9,342 Hotels (except casino hotels) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 79 employers in Novato, 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 Hilton Garden Inn Yakima 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Westin Galleria Houston and Westin Oaks Houston at the Galleria 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marriott's Grande Vista 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hyatt Place Fremont/Silicon Valley 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE CONSTRUCTION FABRICATION/CARPENTRY/PAINTING/ELECTRIC/PIPE 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meek Ranches LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dresick Farms, Inc. - Farm 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wolfsen Inc 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc. 2,276 FTE
CITY-NEAR Township Building Services, Inc. 1,341 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Bay Hospitals (30256) 355 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novato Community Hospital (274-NC-HSP) 337 FTE
NAT-TCR Corrigan Radgowski Correction Center 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Eagle Valley Children's Home 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Dash Markets #230 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Clark Lumber Company, LLC 10.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bellerive Store 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schanno-McClaskey Orchards, Inc. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Broadway Store 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Frankfort Store 35 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 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.