Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities · California

Oak Cottage of Santa Barbara

Santa Barbara, CA · ~34 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.2
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Oak Cottage of Santa Barbara runs at 478% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities workplace, earning a grade F.

Oak Cottage of Santa Barbara: 18.2 TCR = 478% of Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities BLS 3.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Oak Cottage of Santa Barbara safety composite

Oak Cottage of Santa Barbara scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 84% 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).

D

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% 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

Oak Cottage of Santa Barbara: 7.0 → 13.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 36.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Oak Cottage of Santa Barbara's TCR rose 6.9 from 7.0 in 2018 to 13.9 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 36.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623312 · Santa Barbara, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.2 · 478% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #558/635
  • PHOTO Minot, Elmcroft of
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Minot, Elmcroft of (0.0 TCR gap)

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Oak Cottage of Santa Barbara in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Oak Cottage of Santa Barbara averages 18.2 TCR (478% of the Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities BLS benchmark).

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

Oak Cottage of Santa Barbara TCR series: 2018=7 · 2019=15.1 · 2020=36.7 · 2021=13.9 · BLS 3.8

Where Oak Cottage of Santa Barbara falls in its industry

6,510 Assisted-living facilities wit establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #558 safest of 635 Assisted-living facilities wit employers in California.

Oak Cottage of Santa Barbara (34 employees, TCR 18.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 7.2 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Oak Cottage of Santa Barbara
Oak Cottage of Santa Barbara (34 employees, TCR 18.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 7.2

Oak Cottage of Santa Barbara has fewer employees than the Assisted-living facilities without on-si median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.2. 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
2021 13.9 0.0 4 1 0
2020 36.7 10.0 10 1 0
2019 15.1 3.0 5 0 0
2018 7.0 7.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623312 · CA · Santa Barbara

6,510 Assisted-living facilities without on-site nursing care facilities employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 173 employers in Santa Barbara, 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 Minot, Elmcroft of 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carmichael Oaks 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Commonwealth Senior Living at Abingdon 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR The Bridge at Lawrenceville 18.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ardent Mills Yuba City 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Filice Farms, L.P. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alexander Ranch, Inc. 34 FTE
STATE-SIZE MFarms 34 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Santa Barbara 10,779 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital 3,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Santa Barbara 1,587 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Green Santa Barbara 674 FTE
NAT-TCR Grand Oaks Nursing Center 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Olathe 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZRKF 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Puyallup #016 18.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Artemis Plastics, LLC 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Solstice Senior Living at Grand Valley 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE Solstice Senior Living at Fenton 34 FTE
NAT-SIZE The High Line Hotel LLC 34 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: 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.