Electrical contractors · California

Blum & Sons Electric

Carpinteria, CA · ~87 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Blum & Sons Electric runs at 252% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Electrical contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Blum & Sons Electric: 7.1 TCR = 252% of Electrical contractors BLS 2.8 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Blum & Sons Electric safety composite

Blum & Sons Electric scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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 7.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Blum & Sons Electric: 5.7 → 30.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 30.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.16× in 2024

Blum & Sons Electric's TCR rose 24.7 from 5.7 in 2018 to 30.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Carpinteria, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 252% of ind

  • DART 15.2 DART
  • RANK #454/548
  • PHOTO Option One Corporation
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Option One Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Blum & Sons Electric in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Blum & Sons Electric averages 7.1 TCR (252% of the Electrical contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Blum & Sons Electric TCR series: 2018=5.7 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=5 · 2021=0 · 2022=2.4 · 2023=3.6 · 2024=30.5 · BLS 2.8

Where Blum & Sons Electric falls in its industry

4,550 Electrical contractors establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #454 safest of 548 Electrical contractors employers in California.

Blum & Sons Electric (87 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Blum & Sons Electric
Blum & Sons Electric (87 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Blum & Sons Electric has more employees than the Electrical contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 30.5 15.2 2 0 0
2023 3.6 2.4 3 0 0
2022 2.4 2.4 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 5.0 3.7 4 0 0
2019 2.3 1.1 2 0 0
2018 5.7 4.3 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · CA · Carpinteria

4,550 Electrical contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 45 employers in Carpinteria, 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 Option One Corporation 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Driscoll Electric Co., Inc. 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Provident Electric, Inc. - Department 01 7.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR KW Electric Inc. - Cedar Falls 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Martinelli Vineyard Management, Inc 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE farming 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE A. SAMBADO & SON INC 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE Agromillora California 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 166 661 FTE
CITY-NEAR LinkedIn Carpinteria 454 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coastal Blooms Nursery, LLC 326 FTE
CITY-NEAR NuSil Technology, Carpinteria 322 FTE
NAT-TCR North Ridge Home Health 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 11300 Partnership Drive Oklahoma City OK 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Round Rock 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 08024-08-08-MARYSVILLE 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Compounding Solutions 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Connell 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trico Opportunities, Inc. 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Commons 87 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, 2019, 2018. 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.