Employer · California

Pepperdine University - Waves

Malibu, CA · ~56 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.7
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Pepperdine University - Waves runs at 356% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade F.

Pepperdine University - Waves: 10.7 TCR = 356% of industry BLS 3.0 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Pepperdine University - Waves safety composite

Pepperdine University - Waves scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−1.8

2022→2024

Pepperdine University - Waves injury rate improved

Pepperdine University - Waves's TCR fell 1.8 from 12.0 in 2022 to 10.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 12.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=12.0 · 2023=9.9 · 2024=10.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Malibu, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.7 · 356% of ind

  • DART 5.1 DART
  • RANK #503/586
  • PHOTO Legends - The Pavili…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Legends - The Pavilion Scranton (0.0 TCR gap)

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Pepperdine University - Waves in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Pepperdine University - Waves averages 10.7 TCR (356% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Pepperdine University - Waves TCR series: 2022=12 · 2023=9.9 · 2024=10.1 · BLS 3.0

Where Pepperdine University - Waves falls in its industry

6,952 industry establishments

Safer than 9% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #503 safest of 586 industry employers in California.

Pepperdine University - Waves (56 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Pepperdine University - Waves
Pepperdine University - Waves (56 employees, TCR 10.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Pepperdine University - Waves has more employees than the industry median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 10.1 5.1 4 0 0
2023 9.9 9.9 4 0 0
2022 12.0 12.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · CA · Malibu

6,952 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 28 employers in Malibu, 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 Legends - The Pavilion Scranton 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT GREENWOOD HOUSE SR HEALTH CARE 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR PROV-LA-ST JOHNS HTH 10.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT LVH 17TH 10.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wallace Brothers 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Sun Farms, Inc 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1624 Poole Blvd., Yuba City, CA 95993 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Copperhill 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 232 2,546 FTE
CITY-NEAR HRL Laboratories, LLC 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR SODEXO AT PEPPERDINE UNIV-BOARD 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR 10441 Malibu 103 FTE
NAT-TCR Green Cover - Bladen 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hawthorne Woods by New Perspective 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Rubb Inc 10.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Town Insulation 10.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Flagstaff Unified SD 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE UChi - Bartlett DC 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bristol Regional Medical Cente 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Right Step Hill Country 56 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.