Custom builders, for-sale builders, single-family home · California

K. Hovnanian Homes Southern CA Division

Name: K. Hovnanian Homes Southern CA Division Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Irvine, CA · ~50 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 7.5
Avg TCR: 3.8
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

K. Hovnanian Homes Southern CA Division runs at 198% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Custom builders, for-sale builders, single-family home workplace, earning a grade D.

K. Hovnanian Homes Southern CA Division: 7.5 TCR = 198% of Custom builders, for-sale builders, single-family home BLS 3.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

K. Hovnanian Homes Southern CA Division safety composite

K. Hovnanian Homes Southern CA Division scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 7%), 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).

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 7.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers
DART rate: C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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%).

Rising injury rate

K. Hovnanian Homes Southern CA Division: 1.5 → 13.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 13.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

K. Hovnanian Homes Southern CA Division's TCR rose 12.1 from 1.5 in 2019 to 13.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236117 · Irvine, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 7.5 · 198% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #40/43
PHOTO RESIDENTIAL
BOOK 2y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: RESIDENTIAL (0.0 TCR gap)

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ALBUQUERQUE NM

7.9
PORT ST LUCIE

7.9
RESIDENTIAL

7.6
This site

7.5
INDIGO

7.1

What this shows K. Hovnanian Homes Southern CA Division averages 7.5 TCR (198% of the Custom builders, for-sale builders, single-family home BLS benchmark).

K. Hovnanian Homes Southern CA Division TCR series: 2019=1.5 · 2020=13.6 · BLS 3.8

Where K. Hovnanian Homes Southern CA Division falls in its industry

341 Custom builders, for-sale buil establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #40 safest of 43 Custom builders, for-sale buil employers in California.

K. Hovnanian Homes Southern CA Division (50 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 1.7

K. Hovnanian Homes Southern CA Division has fewer employees than the Custom builders, for-sale builders, sing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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
2020	13.6	0.0	2	2	0
2019	1.5	0.0	0	1	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236117 · CA · Irvine

341 Custom builders, for-sale builders, single-family home employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 622 employers in Irvine, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	RESIDENTIAL	HIALEAH, FL	7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	ALBUQUERQUE NM	ALBUQUERQUE, NM	7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	PORT ST LUCIE FL	PORT ST. LUCIE, FL	7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	INDIGO	HIALEAH, FL	7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Jack Bros., Inc.	BRAWLEY	50 FTE
STATE-SIZE	M Three Ranches, LLC	WOODLAND	50 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Penterman Farming Company	NAPA	50 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Trefethen Farming, LLC	NAPA	50 FTE
CITY-NEAR	UC Irvine	Irvine	16,029 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CA-10	Irvine	4,926 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Edwards Lifesciences	Irvine	4,189 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Johnson and Johnson MDD CSS Irvine	Irvine	3,775 FTE
NAT-TCR	DC	Coppell, TX	7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Harrisburg Distribution Center - ABARTA Coca Cola Beverages	Lemoyne, PA	7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Buckeye Polymers, Inc	Lodi, OH	7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Area - Clinton	Clinton, IL	7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Luther St. Cloud Honda	Waite Park, MN	50 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Zep Inc.	Desoto, TX	50 FTE
NAT-SIZE	B&B Beverage Company	Columbus, GA	50 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Weinstein Electric Company	Flint, MI	50 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: 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.