Car washes · California

Palomar

Chula Vista, CA · ~20 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.1
Avg TCR
2.1
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palomar runs at 385% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Car washes workplace, earning a grade F.

Palomar: 8.1 TCR = 385% of Car washes BLS 2.1 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palomar safety composite

Palomar scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Palomar: 0.0 → 13.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.63× in 2024

Palomar's TCR rose 13.2 from 0.0 in 2022 to 13.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 811192 · Chula Vista, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.1 · 385% of ind

  • DART 13.2 DART
  • RANK #36/39
  • PHOTO Abrams
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Abrams (0.1 TCR gap)

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Palomar in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palomar averages 8.1 TCR (385% of the Car washes BLS benchmark).

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

Palomar TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=11.1 · 2024=13.2 · BLS 2.1

Where Palomar falls in its industry

237 Car washes establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 39 Car washes employers in California.

Palomar (20 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Palomar
Palomar (20 employees, TCR 8.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 41 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Palomar has fewer employees than the Car washes median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 13.2 13.2 1 0 0
2023 11.1 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

811192 · CA · Chula Vista

237 Car washes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 219 employers in Chula Vista, 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 Abrams 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR EHDE - EHI Denver 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sam's Xpress Car Wash 304 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Store 065 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sills Farms, Inc. 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE F A Maggiore & Sons, LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE CALMEX CONTRACTING INC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Velvet Antler Ranch LLC 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chula Vista Medical Center - 751 Medical Center Court 2,422 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sharp Chula Vista Medical Ctr 2,094 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rohr Inc a UTC Aerospace Systems Company 1,957 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rohr, Inc. (Chula Vista CA) 1,457 FTE
NAT-TCR Yankton Sd - 3292 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Planes Moving & Storage Company of Columbus 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Bolt Logistics LLC 8.1 TCR
NAT-TCR JONDO LTD - Grand Prairie, TX 8.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hunt Highway 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE WTPS Amory 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Climate Pros Buffalo 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Climate Pros Royse City 20 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. 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.