Water treatment and distribution · California

El Toro Water District

Lake Forest, CA · ~59 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

El Toro Water District runs at 717% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water treatment and distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

El Toro Water District: 8.6 TCR = 717% of Water treatment and distribution BLS 1.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

El Toro Water District safety composite

El Toro Water District scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

El Toro Water District: 5.6 → 9.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 11.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2024

El Toro Water District's TCR rose 3.8 from 5.6 in 2018 to 9.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Lake Forest, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 717% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #146/176
  • PHOTO Southwest Irrigation…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Southwest Irrigation, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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El Toro Water District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows El Toro Water District averages 8.6 TCR (717% of the Water treatment and distribution BLS benchmark).

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

El Toro Water District TCR series: 2018=5.6 · 2019=7.3 · 2020=11.8 · 2021=9.7 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=8.7 · 2024=9.4 · BLS 1.2

Where El Toro Water District falls in its industry

727 Water treatment and distributi establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #146 safest of 176 Water treatment and distributi employers in California.

El Toro Water District (59 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate El Toro Water District
El Toro Water District (59 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

El Toro Water District has more employees than the Water treatment and distribution median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 9.4 5.6 5 0 0
2023 8.7 8.7 5 0 0
2022 7.7 7.7 3 1 0
2021 9.7 8.1 3 3 0
2020 11.8 11.8 1 5 0
2019 7.3 7.3 4 0 0
2018 5.6 5.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · CA · Lake Forest

727 Water treatment and distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 90 employers in Lake Forest, 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 Southwest Irrigation, LLC 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Municipal Water & Sewer Treatment Facilities 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Water Enterprise 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Martin County Division 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE DFFF-Salinas 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE LOMA 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.R. AG SOLUTIONS, INC. 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE F&J FERNANDEZ CONTRACTING 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Panasonic Avionics Corporation 2,047 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARB, Inc. 1,334 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spectrum Brands, Lake Forest 598 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASSA ABLOY Americas Residential, Inc., Lake Forest 594 FTE
NAT-TCR CHAKM - Hampton Inn Kimball 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Safran Landing Systems (LAS) 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR W. A. Wilson & Sons, Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Kimball Railcar Services 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cross High School 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Administration Building 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Renaissance Senior Living 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Site Work Specialists 59 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, 2020, 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.