Full-Service Restaurants · California

Nick's Carlsbad

Carlsbad, CA · ~71 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.6
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nick's Carlsbad runs at 653% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Full-Service Restaurants workplace, earning a grade F.

Nick's Carlsbad: 19.6 TCR = 653% of Full-Service Restaurants BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nick's Carlsbad safety composite

Nick's Carlsbad scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

Nick's Carlsbad: 9.8 → 29.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 29.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.23× in 2024

Nick's Carlsbad's TCR rose 19.5 from 9.8 in 2023 to 29.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722511 · Carlsbad, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 19.6 · 653% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #134/141
  • PHOTO MRP Fairfield Township
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MRP Fairfield Township (0.0 TCR gap)

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Nick's Carlsbad in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nick's Carlsbad averages 19.6 TCR (653% of the Full-Service Restaurants BLS benchmark).

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

Nick's Carlsbad TCR series: 2023=9.8 · 2024=29.4 · BLS 3.0

Where Nick's Carlsbad falls in its industry

1,091 Full-Service Restaurants establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #134 safest of 141 Full-Service Restaurants employers in California.

Nick's Carlsbad (71 employees, TCR 19.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Nick's Carlsbad
Nick's Carlsbad (71 employees, TCR 19.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9

Nick's Carlsbad has more employees than the Full-Service Restaurants median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 29.4 4.5 13 0 0
2023 9.8 5.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722511 · CA · Carlsbad

1,091 Full-Service Restaurants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 218 employers in Carlsbad, 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 MRP Fairfield Township 19.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CRBG, LLC 19.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Diana's Mexican & Seafood Rest. 19.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR LRCP/Great Falls, LLC 19.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE M Pineda Farming Co 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE AgSource Services, LLC 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schafer Ranch, Inc 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE R & J Dondero Inc 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thermo Fisher Scientific 2,234 FTE
CITY-NEAR Legoland California Resort 2,055 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bergelectric Corp. CA 1,520 FTE
CITY-NEAR Life Sciences Solutions Group (LSG) Remote Employees 1,350 FTE
NAT-TCR Watum - Tumwater 19.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Las-Ground Ops 19.6 TCR
NAT-TCR DEW Construction - Keene Office 19.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1652 Swn12 19.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE NF&M International, Inc. 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE 102 Creve Coeur 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avid Waste Systems, Inc. 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE New London 71 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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