Hospitals, general medical and surgical · California

Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital

Goleta, CA · ~313 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
11.9
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade D.

Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital: 11.9 TCR = 159% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 5y 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 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 18.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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: 5.2 → 19.8 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 19.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.51× in 2022

Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital's TCR rose 14.6 from 5.2 in 2018 to 19.8 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Goleta, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 11.9 · 159% of ind

  • DART 18.0 DART
  • RANK #617/662
  • PHOTO Kentucky River Medic…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 74 inj
  • SIZE ~313 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kentucky River 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 11.9 TCR (159% of the Hospitals, general medical and surgical 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: 2018=5.2 · 2019=10.7 · 2020=10.3 · 2021=13.7 · 2022=19.8 · BLS 7.5

Where Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 4% 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 #617 safest of 662 Hospitals, general medical and employers in California.

Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital (313 employees, TCR 11.9) 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 (313 employees, TCR 11.9) 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 Hospitals, general medical and surgical 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
2022 19.8 18.0 9 36 0
2021 13.7 10.4 19 14 0
2020 10.3 6.8 13 10 0
2019 10.7 4.6 22 1 0
2018 5.2 2.4 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · CA · Goleta

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and surgical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 98 employers in Goleta, 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 Kentucky River Medical Center 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sutter Bay Hospitals (30391) 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Big Horn County Hospital District 11.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Silverado Farming Company, Inc. 313 FTE
STATE-SIZE Miner's Ace Hardware 313 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 2177 313 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2479 - LA Sunset 313 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Goleta_CA_RVS 843 FTE
CITY-NEAR Teledyne FLIR, Goleta 555 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Goleta_CA_EW 437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Apeel Technology, Inc. 375 FTE
NAT-TCR 5472-NAI-0034-0034-00769 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Deptford Center 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 547608-Sea-Columbia Sta 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 381648-Cle-Beachland Sta 11.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE First Student 313 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0484 - Orem Ut Whse 313 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keystone Concrete Placement San Antonio 313 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2904-ASM-KY 313 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: 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.