Canal, irrigation · California

Panoche Water District

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

F
Failing Safety Record
12.4
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Panoche Water District runs at 1036% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Canal, irrigation workplace, earning a grade F.

Panoche Water District: 12.4 TCR = 1036% of Canal, irrigation BLS 1.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Panoche Water District safety composite

Panoche Water District scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 17.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Panoche Water District: 8.6 → 23.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 23.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.39× in 2023

Panoche Water District's TCR rose 14.4 from 8.6 in 2021 to 23.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Firebaugh, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.4 · 1036% of ind

  • DART 17.3 DART
  • RANK #164/176
  • PHOTO City of Kalamazoo-Pu…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Kalamazoo-Public Services- Stockbridge (0.0 TCR gap)

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Panoche Water District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Panoche Water District averages 12.4 TCR (1036% of the Canal, irrigation BLS benchmark).

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

Panoche Water District TCR series: 2021=8.6 · 2022=5.7 · 2023=23 · BLS 1.2

Where Panoche Water District falls in its industry

727 Canal, irrigation establishments

Safer than 6% 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 #164 safest of 176 Canal, irrigation employers in California.

Panoche Water District (20 employees, TCR 12.4) 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 Panoche Water District
Panoche Water District (20 employees, TCR 12.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Panoche Water District has fewer employees than the Canal, 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
2023 23.0 17.3 2 2 0
2022 5.7 0.0 1 0 0
2021 8.6 8.6 0 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · CA · Firebaugh

727 Canal, irrigation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 37 employers in Firebaugh, 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 City of Kalamazoo-Public Services- Stockbridge 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Asheville Water Department 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Three Valleys Municipal Water District 12.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Public Works City of Wyoming 12.3 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 S.H. SMITH FARMS INC 1,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR TomaTek 629 FTE
CITY-NEAR Peri & Sons Farms of California, LLC 299 FTE
CITY-NEAR I.S.A. CONTRACTING SERVICES, INC. 264 FTE
NAT-TCR North America : Pataskala 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CFR Boston 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Waterville Preschool and SPPS 12.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Air Conditioning Products, LLC 12.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Midland Paper - Wausau, WI 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arlington Agronomy 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Logging 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ortho Mattress Manufacturing 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. 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.