Employer · California

City of Santa Maria

Santa Maria, CA · ~707 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.4
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Santa Maria runs at 388% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Santa Maria: 12.4 TCR = 388% of industry BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Santa Maria safety composite

City of Santa Maria scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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

25/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.7

2017→2024

City of Santa Maria injury rate improved

City of Santa Maria's TCR fell 2.7 from 13.8 in 2017 to 11.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 17.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=13.8 · 2018=17.5 · 2020=10.2 · 2022=12.0 · 2023=10.0 · 2024=11.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Santa Maria, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 12.4 · 388% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #217/256
  • PHOTO TOWN OF MONTVILLE
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 392 inj
  • SIZE ~707 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TOWN OF MONTVILLE (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Santa Maria in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Santa Maria averages 12.4 TCR (388% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

City of Santa Maria TCR series: 2017=13.8 · 2018=17.5 · 2020=10.2 · 2022=12 · 2023=10 · 2024=11.1 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Santa Maria falls in its industry

1,496 industry establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #217 safest of 256 industry employers in California.

City of Santa Maria (707 employees, TCR 12.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0200400600800 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Santa Maria
City of Santa Maria (707 employees, TCR 12.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

City of Santa Maria has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2024 11.1 4.8 75 4 0
2023 10.0 5.1 59 6 0
2022 12.0 7.3 49 30 0
2020 10.2 4.4 54 6 0
2018 17.5 8.2 84 14 0
2017 13.8 5.4 71 15 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · CA · Santa Maria

1,496 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 280 employers in Santa Maria, 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 TOWN OF MONTVILLE 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Deerwood 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Office of Inspector General - Hopkinsville 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of White Bear Lake - Fire 12.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Excel Paving 707 FTE
STATE-SIZE C46 - Tracy 707 FTE
STATE-SIZE SIE - San Diego - Via Esprillo 707 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Pomona 707 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rancho Nuevo Harvesting, Inc. 2,290 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6403-64030364 2,110 FTE
CITY-NEAR 64030364-364001 MARIAN REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 2,074 FTE
CITY-NEAR Marian Regional Medical Center 2,021 FTE
NAT-TCR Western States Plumbing, Inc 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Specialty Products 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Intermountain Lift, Inc. 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR NMA008 12.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE InterCon 707 FTE
NAT-SIZE TCCo-CORP 707 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vicor Andover - 400 Federal St 707 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sl Tennessee, Lighting Division 707 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, 2020, 2018, 2017. 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.