Sewage treatment plants or facilities · California

El Estero Water Resource Center

Santa Barbara, CA · ~77 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

El Estero Water Resource Center runs at 314% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Sewage treatment plants or facilities workplace, earning a grade F.

El Estero Water Resource Center: 3.8 TCR = 314% of Sewage treatment plants or facilities BLS 1.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

El Estero Water Resource Center safety composite

El Estero Water Resource Center scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−2.2

2023→2024

El Estero Water Resource Center injury rate improved

El Estero Water Resource Center's TCR fell 2.2 from 4.9 in 2023 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.9 · 2024=2.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221320 · Santa Barbara, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 3.8 · 314% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #24/74
  • PHOTO The Jersey City Muni…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority (0.0 TCR gap)

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El Estero Water Resource Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows El Estero Water Resource Center averages 3.8 TCR (314% of the Sewage treatment plants or facilities BLS benchmark).

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

El Estero Water Resource Center TCR series: 2023=4.9 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 1.2

Where El Estero Water Resource Center falls in its industry

400 Sewage treatment plants or fac establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 74 Sewage treatment plants or fac employers in California.

El Estero Water Resource Center (77 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.4 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate El Estero Water Resource Center
El Estero Water Resource Center (77 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.4

El Estero Water Resource Center has more employees than the Sewage treatment plants or facilities median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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 2.7 0.0 1 2 0
2023 4.9 2.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221320 · CA · Santa Barbara

400 Sewage treatment plants or 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 The Jersey City Municipal Utilities Authority 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moccasin Bend Wastewater Treatment 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Lake Superior Sanitary District 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR LFUCG - Water Quality - Town Branch Water Treatment Plant 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Innovative Produce, LP 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bokisch Vineyard Management 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bassman 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE COR Chico Business Office 77 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 Richfield 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Fostoria Community Hospital 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Fuji Silysia Chemical USA, Ltd. 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 288 Granite City 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carriage Inn Katy 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Melville 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sonata Boynton Beach 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Valentine Delivery Services LLC 77 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.