Distribution line, sewer and water, construction · California

Downstream Services, Inc.

Escondido, CA · ~73 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Downstream Services, Inc. runs at 174% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Distribution line, sewer and water, construction workplace, earning a grade D.

Downstream Services, Inc.: 4.9 TCR = 174% of Distribution line, sewer and water, construction BLS 2.8 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Downstream Services, Inc. safety composite

Downstream Services, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 26%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.43 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

Downstream Services, Inc.: 3.3 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2024

Downstream Services, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.8 from 3.3 in 2018 to 6.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 6.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237110 · Escondido, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 174% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #150/201
  • PHOTO Clearwater Utilities…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Clearwater Utilities Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Downstream Services, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Downstream Services, Inc. averages 4.9 TCR (174% of the Distribution line, sewer and water, construction BLS benchmark).

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

Downstream Services, Inc. TCR series: 2018=3.3 · 2019=3.3 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=6.3 · 2024=6.1 · BLS 2.8

Where Downstream Services, Inc. falls in its industry

1,614 Distribution line, sewer and w establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #150 safest of 201 Distribution line, sewer and w employers in California.

Downstream Services, Inc. (73 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Downstream Services, Inc.
Downstream Services, Inc. (73 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Downstream Services, Inc. has more employees than the Distribution line, sewer and water, cons median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 6.1 2.4 4 1 0
2023 6.3 3.8 5 0 0
2022 5.9 0.0 4 0 0
2021 4.5 0.0 3 0 0
2019 3.3 0.0 2 0 0
2018 3.3 3.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237110 · CA · Escondido

1,614 Distribution line, sewer and water, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 244 employers in Escondido, 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 Clearwater Utilities Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maguire Iron 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Florida Aquastore & Utility Construction, Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Burns-Pacific Construction, Inc. 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Columbia 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Location 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE P-R Farms Inc/Palomate Inc 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA Escondido 4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palomar Medical Center Escondido 3,031 FTE
CITY-NEAR Escondido CA 1,546 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bergelectric Corp. CA 1,279 FTE
NAT-TCR Hmong International Academy (HIA) 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 092 - Lansing GM - Millett Hwy 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR APG Cash Drawer 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunnyside South Beloit 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carlisle Dry 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Andis - Newman 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dowling 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western States Metal Roofing 73 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, 2021, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.