Water treatment and distribution · California

Moulton Niguel Water District

Laguna Hills, CA · ~164 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Moulton Niguel Water District runs at 401% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water treatment and distribution workplace, earning a grade F.

Moulton Niguel Water District: 4.8 TCR = 401% of Water treatment and distribution BLS 1.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Moulton Niguel Water District safety composite

Moulton Niguel Water District scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

D

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

Moulton Niguel Water District: 4.2 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 7.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2024

Moulton Niguel Water District's TCR rose 1.9 from 4.2 in 2019 to 6.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Laguna Hills, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 4.8 · 401% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #88/176
  • PHOTO Citizens Energy Grou…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~164 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Citizens Energy Group-Water (0.0 TCR gap)

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Moulton Niguel Water District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Moulton Niguel Water District averages 4.8 TCR (401% 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

Moulton Niguel Water District TCR series: 2019=4.2 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=6.3 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=3 · 2024=6.1 · BLS 1.2

Where Moulton Niguel Water District falls in its industry

727 Water treatment and distributi establishments

Safer than 44% 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 #88 safest of 176 Water treatment and distributi employers in California.

Moulton Niguel Water District (164 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 Moulton Niguel Water District
Moulton Niguel Water District (164 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Moulton Niguel 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 6.1 5.5 10 0 0
2023 3.0 1.8 5 0 0
2022 7.7 5.8 10 2 0
2021 6.3 4.9 8 1 0
2020 1.5 1.5 2 0 0
2019 4.2 2.8 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · CA · Laguna Hills

727 Water treatment and distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 56 employers in Laguna Hills, 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 Citizens Energy Group-Water 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sacramento Suburban Water District Corp Yard 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR EPCOR Clovis Water, EPCOR Water New Mexico Inc. 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR County of Harnett-Public Utilities 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cottonwood 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Shippers | Exeter Packinghouse 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE GloriAnn Farms Brawley 164 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Coast Packing, Inc. 164 FTE
CITY-NEAR SMM00 SADDLEBACK MEMORIAL MED CENTER 1,752 FTE
CITY-NEAR RbA Orange County 165 FTE
CITY-NEAR Laguna Hills 529 152 FTE
CITY-NEAR Unit # 1223 145 FTE
NAT-TCR 4over International LLC - Arlington, TX 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Synergy Equipment Fort Myers 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Holland Roofing of Cincinnati 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Dixie Electric Cooperative 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 153006-Grand Junction | CO | COL-200 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aristacare At Cherry Hill 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spearfish Forest Products, Inc. 164 FTE
NAT-SIZE Donaldson Company, Inc 164 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.