Hospitals, general medical and surgical · California

Palomar Medical Center Poway

Name: Palomar Medical Center Poway Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Poway, CA · ~889 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 6.8
Avg TCR: 7.5
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Palomar Medical Center Poway runs at 91% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Hospitals, general medical and surgical workplace, earning a grade C.

Palomar Medical Center Poway: 6.8 TCR = 91% of Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS 7.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palomar Medical Center Poway safety composite

Palomar Medical Center Poway scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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).

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 6.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers
DART rate: F 5.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 52% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.3

2022→2023

Palomar Medical Center Poway injury rate improved

Palomar Medical Center Poway's TCR fell 1.3 from 7.5 in 2022 to 6.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 7.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=7.5 · 2023=6.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Poway, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 6.8 · 91% of ind

DART 5.2 DART
RANK #343/662
PHOTO Norton Women's and C…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 86 inj
SIZE ~889 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Norton Women's and Children's Hospital NWCH (0.0 TCR gap)

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6.8
Norton Women's

6.8
Piedmont Rockd

6.8
UPMC Carlisle

6.8
EL PASO LTACH

6.8

What this shows Palomar Medical Center Poway averages 6.8 TCR (91% of the Hospitals, general medical and surgical BLS benchmark).

Palomar Medical Center Poway TCR series: 2022=7.5 · 2023=6.2 · BLS 7.5

Where Palomar Medical Center Poway falls in its industry

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

Grade C

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #343 safest of 662 Hospitals, general medical and employers in California.

Palomar Medical Center Poway (889 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Palomar Medical Center Poway has more employees than the Hospitals, general medical and surgical median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2023	6.2	5.2	43	0	0
2022	7.5	6.5	43	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · CA · Poway

6,862 Hospitals, general medical and surgical employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 143 employers in Poway, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Norton Women's and Children's Hospital NWCH	LOUISVILLE, KY	6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Piedmont Rockdale Hospital	CONYERS, GA	6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	UPMC Carlisle	CARLISLE, PA	6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	EL PASO LTACH PARTNERS LP	EL PASO, TX	6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Valley View Casino & Hotel	VALLEY CENTER	889 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AG STAR HARVETING INC	PORTERVILLE	888 FTE
STATE-SIZE	California Department of Transportation Facility 360	STOCKTON	890 FTE
STATE-SIZE	California Department of Transportation Facility 431	TAMARACK	890 FTE
CITY-NEAR	General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Poway Campus	Poway	4,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Geneal Atomics Facilities and Support Groups	Poway	1,169 FTE
CITY-NEAR	General Atomics - Poway - A15	Poway	661 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Corovan Moving & Storage	Poway	567 FTE
NAT-TCR	Applewood at Amherst	Amherst, MA	6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Colonial Concrete Company, LLC	Placida, FL	6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Warren Farmers Co-op	Mcminnville, TN	6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	9095-ITO	Hilo, HI	6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Oakland Management Corp.	Farmington Hills, MI	889 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Midwest Plant	Portage, IN	889 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Amazon.com Services LLC - BWI4	Clearbrook, VA	889 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Great Lakes Home Health 38-3206511	Jackson, MI	889 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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