City and town managers' offices · California

City of Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA · ~1,587 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Santa Barbara runs at 300% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical City and town managers' offices workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Santa Barbara: 9.6 TCR = 300% of City and town managers' offices BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Santa Barbara safety composite

City of Santa Barbara scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% 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

City of Santa Barbara: 6.1 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 13.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.35× in 2022

City of Santa Barbara's TCR rose 1.0 from 6.1 in 2017 to 7.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2019 at 13.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.35× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921110 · Santa Barbara, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 300% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #134/149
  • PHOTO City of Cayce
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 452 inj
  • SIZE ~1,587 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Cayce (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Santa Barbara in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Santa Barbara averages 9.6 TCR (300% of the City and town managers' offices BLS benchmark).

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

City of Santa Barbara TCR series: 2017=6.1 · 2018=12.1 · 2019=13.2 · 2022=7 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Santa Barbara falls in its industry

1,010 City and town managers' office establishments

Safer than 18% 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 #134 safest of 149 City and town managers' office employers in California.

City of Santa Barbara (1,587 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Santa Barbara
City of Santa Barbara (1,587 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8

City of Santa Barbara has more employees than the City and town managers' offices 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
2022 7.0 3.4 102 51 0
2019 13.2 7.0 125 6 0
2018 12.1 7.7 106 9 0
2017 6.1 2.3 119 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921110 · CA · Santa Barbara

1,010 City and town managers' offices 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 City of Cayce 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Taos 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Gig Harbor 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Marion 9.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 301 1,587 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 276 1,587 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 285 1,587 FTE
STATE-SIZE California Department of Transportation Facility 281 1,587 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Santa Barbara 10,779 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital 3,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Green Santa Barbara 674 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cottage Health 618 FTE
NAT-TCR Darling Ingredients Inc. 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Solaris Healthcare North Naples, LLC 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 168580-Wood Dale Po 9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 253150-Farmington Po 9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE CHRISTUS St. Frances Cabrini Hospital 1,587 FTE
NAT-SIZE Michelin-US9 Ardmore 1,587 FTE
NAT-SIZE Good Samaritan 1,587 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grifols Therapeutics LLC (Clayton) 1,587 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: 2022, 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.