Water treatment and distribution · California

Lake Mathews Reservoir

Riverside, CA · ~76 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lake Mathews Reservoir runs at 688% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water treatment and distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

Lake Mathews Reservoir: 8.3 TCR = 688% of Water treatment and distribution BLS 1.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lake Mathews Reservoir safety composite

Lake Mathews Reservoir scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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%).

TCR Δ

−6.7

2017→2024

Lake Mathews Reservoir injury rate improved

Lake Mathews Reservoir's TCR fell 6.7 from 9.9 in 2017 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 17.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.9 · 2018=11.2 · 2019=17.3 · 2020=4.4 · 2021=10.6 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Riverside, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 688% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #143/176
  • PHOTO Water Distribution
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Water Distribution (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lake Mathews Reservoir in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lake Mathews Reservoir averages 8.3 TCR (688% 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

Lake Mathews Reservoir TCR series: 2017=9.9 · 2018=11.2 · 2019=17.3 · 2020=4.4 · 2021=10.6 · 2022=4.8 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 1.2

Where Lake Mathews Reservoir falls in its industry

727 Water treatment and distributi establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #143 safest of 176 Water treatment and distributi employers in California.

Lake Mathews Reservoir (76 employees, TCR 8.3) 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 Lake Mathews Reservoir
Lake Mathews Reservoir (76 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Lake Mathews Reservoir 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 3.1 3.1 2 0 0
2023 4.7 1.6 3 0 0
2022 4.8 3.2 3 0 0
2021 10.6 9.1 7 0 0
2020 4.4 1.5 3 0 0
2019 17.3 10.6 10 3 0
2018 11.2 8.4 8 0 0
2017 9.9 8.5 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · CA · Riverside

727 Water treatment and distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 536 employers in Riverside, 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 Water Distribution 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sargent Drilling Co 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR North City Pure Water Facility 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pennichuck Water Works Inc - Distribution Department 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE CAL-O ADMINISTRATION 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3181_6797 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE J&J Labor,Inc. 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fujishige Farms, Inc. 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Riverside 8,676 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-21 4,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Community Hospital 2,354 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08681351 RIVERSIDE MED CENTER 2,349 FTE
NAT-TCR Lincoln Middle School 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR TPI Carolina 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Old Town Concrete Plant 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bridgeport 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Jos. H. Lowenstein & Sons, Inc. 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Site Bulk Material Handling 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Westlock Controls 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palos South Middle School 76 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.