Skilled nursing facilities · California

Buena Vista Care Center

Santa Barbara, CA · ~131 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
28.9
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buena Vista Care Center runs at 444% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Skilled nursing facilities workplace, earning a grade F.

Buena Vista Care Center: 28.9 TCR = 444% of Skilled nursing facilities BLS 6.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buena Vista Care Center safety composite

Buena Vista Care Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 28.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 34.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Buena Vista Care Center: 37.0 → 41.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 58.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.19× in 2021

Buena Vista Care Center's TCR rose 4.7 from 37.0 in 2017 to 41.8 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 58.8 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Santa Barbara, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 28.9 · 444% of ind

  • DART 34.5 DART
  • RANK #739/739
  • PHOTO Valley View Healthca…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~131 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Valley View Healthcare Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buena Vista Care Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buena Vista Care Center averages 28.9 TCR (444% of the Skilled nursing facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Buena Vista Care Center TCR series: 2017=37 · 2019=7.8 · 2020=58.8 · 2021=41.8 · BLS 6.5

Where Buena Vista Care Center falls in its industry

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #739 safest of 739 Skilled nursing facilities employers in California.

Buena Vista Care Center (131 employees, TCR 28.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6 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 0100200300400 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Buena Vista Care Center
Buena Vista Care Center (131 employees, TCR 28.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Buena Vista Care Center has more employees than the Skilled nursing facilities median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. 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
2021 41.8 34.5 13 33 0
2020 58.8 4.9 10 62 0
2019 7.8 5.5 10 0 0
2017 37.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · CA · Santa Barbara

15,252 Skilled nursing facilities 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 Valley View Healthcare Center 28.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Liberty Commons Of Lee County 28.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Belmont Healthcare Center 28.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 9288-D11 28.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Babe Blosser Ranch 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dave Wilson Nursery 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gold Flora Corp 131 FTE
STATE-SIZE Land FLC 131 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 Friendship Village Retirement Community 28.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Synergy Delivery, LLC 28.9 TCR
NAT-TCR WIFT,LLC 28.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pennwest California** 28.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aurora Flight Sciences Massachusett 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elliott Electric Supply #49 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems LLC 131 FTE
NAT-SIZE Instrumentation : Hollis 131 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017. 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.