Painting (except roof) contractors · California

DTW Construction dba Sonshine Painting

San Diego, CA · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DTW Construction dba Sonshine Painting runs at 125% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Painting (except roof) contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

DTW Construction dba Sonshine Painting: 3.5 TCR = 125% of Painting (except roof) contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DTW Construction dba Sonshine Painting safety composite

DTW Construction dba Sonshine Painting scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 27%), 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).

D

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

DTW Construction dba Sonshine Painting: 0.0 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1× in 2024

DTW Construction dba Sonshine Painting's TCR rose 7.0 from 0.0 in 2023 to 7.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238320 · San Diego, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.5 · 125% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #54/124
  • PHOTO Color Wheel, Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Color Wheel, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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DTW Construction dba Sonshine Painting in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DTW Construction dba Sonshine Painting averages 3.5 TCR (125% of the Painting (except roof) contractors BLS benchmark).

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

DTW Construction dba Sonshine Painting TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=7 · BLS 2.8

Where DTW Construction dba Sonshine Painting falls in its industry

582 Painting (except roof) contrac establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #54 safest of 124 Painting (except roof) contrac employers in California.

DTW Construction dba Sonshine Painting (24 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate DTW Construction dba Sonshine Painting
DTW Construction dba Sonshine Painting (24 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8

DTW Construction dba Sonshine Painting has fewer employees than the Painting (except roof) contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2024 7.0 3.5 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238320 · CA · San Diego

582 Painting (except roof) contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 1,979 employers in San Diego, 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 Color Wheel, Inc 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vivax Systems Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Painting By Nakasone, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nolan Painting 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Agro-Jal Farming Enterprises 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE MTD Farms 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marc Pura Ranch, LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Costa Farms 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC San Diego Health 9,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics 8,108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Health Human Services Agency 6,080 FTE
CITY-NEAR National University 4,955 FTE
NAT-TCR Omni Barton Creek Resort & Spa 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand Ely Lodge 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Graftech USA LLC 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR B&B Transformer, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Home Market Foods - Norton 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dorsey Excavating Inc 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ohio 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Related Management Company LP Ocean Park Apartments 24 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. 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.