General Medical and Surgical Hospital · California
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
Santa Barbara, CA · ~3,298 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 13.1
- Avg TCR
- 3.8
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital runs at 344% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General Medical and Surgical Hospital workplace, earning a grade F.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 13.1
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.8
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 1,010
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital's OSHA Total Case Rate of 13.1 to the General Medical and Surgical Hospital BLS benchmark of 3.8 (344% of benchmark) across 7 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.8 industry benchmark.
Where Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital falls in its industry
687 General Medical and Surgical H establishmentsSafer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.
Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #187 safest of 196 General Medical and Surgical H employers in California.
Trend analysis for Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital
Between 2018 and 2024, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital's Total Case Rate worsened from 7.9 to 14.8 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 89% increase across 6 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2019, at a TCR of 7.8, while 2022 saw the highest rate, at 26.1, a spread of 18.2 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 7 reporting years, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital recorded 1,010 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 7-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 1,010 injuries, 907 illnesses shown on this page for Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital are sourced from its own 7 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 621999 - General Medical and Surgical Hospital.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
286 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 4,633,070 hours worked = 12.35 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital (this establishment) | 13.09 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 7-year avg |
| General medical and surgical hospitals industry avg | 3.80 | BLS IIF, NAICS 621999 |
| California state avg (all industries) | 5.64 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 344 reportable incidents · 142 injuries, 202 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 297 reportable incidents · 143 injuries, 154 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 513 reportable incidents · 148 injuries, 365 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 251 reportable incidents · 156 injuries, 95 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 210 reportable incidents · 128 injuries, 82 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 153 reportable incidents · 148 injuries, 5 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 149 reportable incidents · 145 injuries, 4 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 14.8 | 12.3 | 142 | 202 | 0 |
| 2023 | 13.4 | 11.5 | 143 | 154 | 0 |
| 2022 | 26.1 | 23.2 | 148 | 365 | 0 |
| 2021 | 11.6 | 8.7 | 156 | 95 | 0 |
| 2020 | 10.0 | 7.2 | 128 | 82 | 0 |
| 2019 | 7.8 | 4.4 | 148 | 5 | 0 |
| 2018 | 7.9 | 4.8 | 145 | 4 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital's reported OSHA injury record versus its General Medical and Surgical Hospital peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 344% of the General Medical and Surgical Hospital benchmark, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider General Medical and Surgical Hospital sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.