Nursing homes · California

Palomar Vista Healthcare Center

Escondido, CA · ~109 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
6.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Palomar Vista Healthcare Center runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Nursing homes workplace, earning a grade C.

Palomar Vista Healthcare Center: 6.0 TCR = 92% of Nursing homes BLS 6.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Palomar Vista Healthcare Center safety composite

Palomar Vista Healthcare Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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 Vista Healthcare Center: 5.4 → 12.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 12.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.44× in 2024

Palomar Vista Healthcare Center's TCR rose 7.0 from 5.4 in 2017 to 12.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 623110 · Escondido, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 6.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 8.7 DART
  • RANK #228/739
  • PHOTO Diversicare of Besse…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~109 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Diversicare of Bessemer (0.0 TCR gap)

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Palomar Vista Healthcare Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Palomar Vista Healthcare Center averages 6.0 TCR (92% of the Nursing homes BLS benchmark).

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

Palomar Vista Healthcare Center TCR series: 2017=5.4 · 2018=3.8 · 2019=5 · 2020=6.6 · 2022=6 · 2023=2.8 · 2024=12.4 · BLS 6.5

Where Palomar Vista Healthcare Center falls in its industry

15,252 Nursing homes establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #228 safest of 739 Nursing homes employers in California.

Palomar Vista Healthcare Center (109 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Palomar Vista Healthcare Center
Palomar Vista Healthcare Center (109 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 106 employees and a TCR of 6.6

Palomar Vista Healthcare Center has more employees than the Nursing homes median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.6. 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 12.4 8.7 7 3 0
2023 2.8 0.0 3 0 0
2022 6.0 6.0 6 0 0
2020 6.6 4.0 5 0 0
2019 5.0 3.7 4 0 0
2018 3.8 0.0 3 0 0
2017 5.4 2.7 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

623110 · CA · Escondido

15,252 Nursing homes employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 244 employers in Escondido, 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 Diversicare of Bessemer 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Suburban Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jacksonville Rehabilitation and Nursing Center 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grand Boulevard Health & Rehabilitation Center 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE BRAVANTE FARM MANAGEMENT 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE John Kautz Farms - Lodi, CA 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE G4 Farm Labor, Inc. 109 FTE
STATE-SIZE Elvira Sandoval 109 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA Escondido 4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palomar Medical Center Escondido 3,031 FTE
CITY-NEAR Escondido CA 1,546 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bergelectric Corp. CA 1,279 FTE
NAT-TCR Freedom Plaza SCC 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR New Look Contracting, Inc 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Whitinsville 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Precision Stamping Co Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ozark 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Construction 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dewayne's Quality Metal Coatings 109 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aluminum Blanking Company, INC. 109 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.