Grocery stores · California

Santa Barbara Grocery Outlet

Santa Barbara, CA · ~30 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Santa Barbara Grocery Outlet runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grocery stores workplace, earning a grade D.

Santa Barbara Grocery Outlet: 6.1 TCR = 179% of Grocery stores BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Santa Barbara Grocery Outlet safety composite

Santa Barbara Grocery Outlet scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 87% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 33%), 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).

C

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 87% 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

−4.0

2018→2023

Santa Barbara Grocery Outlet injury rate improved

Santa Barbara Grocery Outlet's TCR fell 4.0 from 4.0 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 17.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=4.0 · 2020=8.6 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=17.8 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 445110 · Santa Barbara, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.1 · 179% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1983/4686
  • PHOTO DORADO
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DORADO (0.0 TCR gap)

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Santa Barbara Grocery Outlet in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Santa Barbara Grocery Outlet averages 6.1 TCR (179% of the Grocery stores BLS benchmark).

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

Santa Barbara Grocery Outlet TCR series: 2018=4 · 2020=8.6 · 2021=0 · 2022=17.8 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.4

Where Santa Barbara Grocery Outlet falls in its industry

30,654 Grocery stores establishments

Safer than 33% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1983 safest of 4686 Grocery stores employers in California.

Santa Barbara Grocery Outlet (30 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 050100150200250 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Santa Barbara Grocery Outlet
Santa Barbara Grocery Outlet (30 employees, TCR 6.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Santa Barbara Grocery Outlet has fewer employees than the Grocery stores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 17.8 17.8 4 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 8.6 8.6 2 0 0
2018 4.0 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

445110 · CA · Santa Barbara

30,654 Grocery stores employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 173 employers in Santa Barbara, 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 DORADO 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Price Rite Store 209 University 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rouses Market #10 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 113GVA 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE BZNUR 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1780 San Juan Rd. 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charter Oaks 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenfields Turf, Inc. 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Santa Barbara 10,779 FTE
CITY-NEAR Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital 3,298 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Santa Barbara 1,587 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Green Santa Barbara 674 FTE
NAT-TCR Bashas 160 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Southeast Milk, Inc. Okeechobee Trucking 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Battlefield Farms Inc. 6.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Pan-O-Gold Baking Company-Kaukauna, WI 6.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lynchburg District Shop 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wilson's Machine Products Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aztec Tubular Products LLC 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sulfco, LLC 30 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, 2020, 2018. 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.