Home health care agencies · California

BrightStar Care of Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA · ~65 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
21.3
Avg TCR
5.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BrightStar Care of Santa Barbara runs at 410% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Home health care agencies workplace, earning a grade F.

BrightStar Care of Santa Barbara: 21.3 TCR = 410% of Home health care agencies BLS 5.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BrightStar Care of Santa Barbara safety composite

BrightStar Care of Santa Barbara scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 21.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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%).

TCR Δ

−11.9

2017→2019

BrightStar Care of Santa Barbara injury rate improved

BrightStar Care of Santa Barbara's TCR fell 11.9 from 35.7 in 2017 to 23.9 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 35.7 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=35.7 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=23.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621610 · Santa Barbara, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 21.3 · 410% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #187/188
  • PHOTO Augustana Chapel Vie…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Augustana Chapel View #092 (0.1 TCR gap)

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BrightStar Care of Santa Barbara in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BrightStar Care of Santa Barbara averages 21.3 TCR (410% of the Home health care agencies BLS benchmark).

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

BrightStar Care of Santa Barbara TCR series: 2017=35.7 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=23.9 · BLS 5.2

Where BrightStar Care of Santa Barbara falls in its industry

3,635 Home health care agencies establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #187 safest of 188 Home health care agencies employers in California.

BrightStar Care of Santa Barbara (65 employees, TCR 21.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 02004006008001,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate BrightStar Care of Santa Barbara
BrightStar Care of Santa Barbara (65 employees, TCR 21.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 4.4

BrightStar Care of Santa Barbara has fewer employees than the Home health care agencies median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2019 23.9 4.8 4 1 0
2018 4.4 4.4 1 0 0
2017 35.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621610 · CA · Santa Barbara

3,635 Home health care agencies employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 173 employers in Santa Barbara, 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 Augustana Chapel View #092 21.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lancaster Hospice 21.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Team Select Home Care - DEN 21.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Personal Touch Home Care of SE MA 21.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE SunnySlope Tree Farm, Inc. 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crown Nursery 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE De Jager Farms, Inc. 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Demler Enterprises, LLC 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Santa Barbara 10,779 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital 3,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Santa Barbara 1,587 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Green Santa Barbara 674 FTE
NAT-TCR San Antonio 00520 21.3 TCR
NAT-TCR B-X South Windsor LLC 21.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cramer's Cashway Inc. 21.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Newport Farms, LLC. 21.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Victory Brewing Company Kennett Square Brewpub 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE K-M High School 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Continuing Care Hospital - Lex 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kenwal Steel Tennessee 65 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: 2019, 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.