General Medical and Surgical Hospital · California

Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital

Santa Barbara, CA · ~348 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
10.6
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital runs at 142% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General Medical and Surgical Hospital workplace, earning a grade D.

Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital: 10.6 TCR = 142% of General Medical and Surgical Hospital BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital safety composite

Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 3%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital: 8.4 → 12.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2024

Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital's TCR rose 4.5 from 8.4 in 2023 to 12.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Santa Barbara, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 10.6 · 142% of ind

  • DART 10.9 DART
  • RANK #588/662
  • PHOTO Houston Methodist Ho…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~348 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Houston Methodist Hospital - Texas Medical Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital averages 10.6 TCR (142% of the General Medical and Surgical Hospital BLS benchmark).

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

Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital TCR series: 2023=8.4 · 2024=12.9 · BLS 7.5

Where Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General Medical and Surgical H establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #588 safest of 662 General Medical and Surgical H employers in California.

Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital (348 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital
Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital (348 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital has fewer employees than the General Medical and Surgical Hospital median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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 12.9 10.9 20 13 0
2023 8.4 6.4 13 8 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · CA · Santa Barbara

6,862 General Medical and Surgical Hospital 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 Houston Methodist Hospital - Texas Medical Center 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 9292-AHTM001 - HOSPITAL 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clifton Fine Health Care Corporation 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carilion Clinic Tazewell Community Hospital Co. 09 10.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Roebbelen Contracting Inc 348 FTE
STATE-SIZE MGE Underground, Inc. 348 FTE
STATE-SIZE Camblin Steel Service, Inc. 348 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fresno Plumbing & Heating Inc. 348 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 Shore Point Distributing Co., Inc. 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Dekalb 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR XIY 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Fire Department 10.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE CCA Midwest, Inc. 348 FTE
NAT-SIZE National FL - 0804 348 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shoreview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 348 FTE
NAT-SIZE TCCo-KCI 348 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.