Water distribution (except irrigation) · California

Otay Water District

Spring Valley, CA · ~137 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Otay Water District runs at 351% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water distribution (except irrigation) workplace, earning a grade F.

Otay Water District: 4.2 TCR = 351% of Water distribution (except irrigation) BLS 1.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Otay Water District safety composite

Otay Water District scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

Otay Water District: 4.4 → 5.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.05× in 2024

Otay Water District's TCR rose 0.7 from 4.4 in 2017 to 5.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Spring Valley, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 4.2 · 351% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #74/176
  • PHOTO Arvin-Edison Water S…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 44 inj
  • SIZE ~137 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Arvin-Edison Water Storage District (0.0 TCR gap)

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Otay Water District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Otay Water District averages 4.2 TCR (351% of the Water distribution (except irrigation) BLS benchmark).

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

Otay Water District TCR series: 2017=4.4 · 2018=4.4 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=2.9 · 2021=5.1 · 2022=4.3 · 2023=4.4 · 2024=5.2 · BLS 1.2

Where Otay Water District falls in its industry

727 Water distribution (except irr establishments

Safer than 50% 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 #74 safest of 176 Water distribution (except irr employers in California.

Otay Water District (137 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 Otay Water District
Otay Water District (137 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Otay Water District has more employees than the Water distribution (except irrigation) 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 5.2 4.4 7 0 0
2023 4.4 4.4 6 0 0
2022 4.3 3.6 6 0 0
2021 5.1 3.6 5 2 0
2020 2.9 2.9 4 0 0
2019 2.9 2.2 4 0 0
2018 4.4 3.7 6 0 0
2017 4.4 3.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · CA · Spring Valley

727 Water distribution (except irrigation) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 56 employers in Spring Valley, 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 Arvin-Edison Water Storage District 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Baton Rouge Water Company 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ypsilanti Community Utilities Authority - Administration & Wastewater Operations 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Us Pipe & Irrigation, LLC 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE DIVERSIFIED FARM LABOR INC 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE A C FARM LABOR CONTRACTOR INC 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE IN Farms Inc 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE BVLS 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 368 1,170 FTE
CITY-NEAR Covenant Living at Mount Miguel 230 FTE
CITY-NEAR MOUNT MIGUEL COVENANT VILLAGE 226 FTE
CITY-NEAR Casper Company 180 FTE
NAT-TCR Hibbing Clinic 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR S03812 - WM of Northern MS - Tupelo 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Williams NationaLease 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Anderson Bus Company of Frazee 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE US Gypsum Washingtonville 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Universidad Ana G Mendez Online 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE S04545 - Atlanta East Hauling 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Century Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 137 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.