Emergency road services (i.e., tow service) · California

Bob Carlson Towing - Fleet Ave

Ventura, CA · ~22 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bob Carlson Towing - Fleet Ave runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Emergency road services (i.e., tow service) workplace, earning a grade D.

Bob Carlson Towing - Fleet Ave: 7.9 TCR = 176% of Emergency road services (i.e., tow service) BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bob Carlson Towing - Fleet Ave safety composite

Bob Carlson Towing - Fleet Ave scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

Bob Carlson Towing - Fleet Ave: 0.0 → 15.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 15.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.5× in 2024

Bob Carlson Towing - Fleet Ave's TCR rose 15.9 from 0.0 in 2023 to 15.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488410 · Ventura, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.9 · 176% of ind

  • DART 11.9 DART
  • RANK #45/48
  • PHOTO Southside Wrecker INC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~22 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southside Wrecker INC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Bob Carlson Towing - Fleet Ave in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bob Carlson Towing - Fleet Ave averages 7.9 TCR (176% of the Emergency road services (i.e., tow service) BLS benchmark).

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

Bob Carlson Towing - Fleet Ave TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=15.9 · BLS 4.5

Where Bob Carlson Towing - Fleet Ave falls in its industry

157 Emergency road services (i.e., establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #45 safest of 48 Emergency road services (i.e., employers in California.

Bob Carlson Towing - Fleet Ave (22 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Bob Carlson Towing - Fleet Ave
Bob Carlson Towing - Fleet Ave (22 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Bob Carlson Towing - Fleet Ave has fewer employees than the Emergency road services (i.e., tow servi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 15.9 11.9 4 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488410 · CA · Ventura

157 Emergency road services (i.e., tow service) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 244 employers in Ventura, 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 Southside Wrecker INC 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR A to Z Enterprises Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR J-M Northwest, Inc. 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR AAA Club Alliance Cinn Fleet 7.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE LaGrande Farms 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Del Carlo Farms, Inc. 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE Linda Vista Farms 22 FTE
STATE-SIZE MOUNTAIN VIEW FARM SHOP 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 447 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 530 2,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6292-00000001 2,250 FTE
CITY-NEAR HSA Human Service Agency 1,516 FTE
NAT-TCR Shawmut Metal Products, Inc. 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Steelhead Metal Corp 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Piedmont Henry Hospital 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Blairsville Hatchery 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tn - Basf 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wall Lenk Corporation 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodwill Massillon Store 22 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodwill Alliance Store 22 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. 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.