Building materials supply dealers · California

Santa Barbara Home Improvement Center

Santa Barbara, CA · ~75 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Santa Barbara Home Improvement Center runs at 122% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Building materials supply dealers workplace, earning a grade D.

Santa Barbara Home Improvement Center: 4.1 TCR = 122% of Building materials supply dealers BLS 3.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Santa Barbara Home Improvement Center safety composite

Santa Barbara Home Improvement Center scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% 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%).

Santa Barbara Home Improvement Center held a steady TCR band

Santa Barbara Home Improvement Center's TCR held near 0.1 from 1.7 in 2017 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.4× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.7 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=14.6 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 444190 · Santa Barbara, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 122% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #59/159
  • PHOTO Pella Products Inc
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pella Products Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Santa Barbara Home Improvement Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Santa Barbara Home Improvement Center averages 4.1 TCR (122% of the Building materials supply dealers BLS benchmark).

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

Santa Barbara Home Improvement Center TCR series: 2017=1.7 · 2018=0 · 2019=4.8 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=3.4 · 2022=1.7 · 2023=14.6 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.4

Where Santa Barbara Home Improvement Center falls in its industry

1,643 Building materials supply deal establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #59 safest of 159 Building materials supply deal employers in California.

Santa Barbara Home Improvement Center (75 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2 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 050100150200 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Santa Barbara Home Improvement Center
Santa Barbara Home Improvement Center (75 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 35 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Santa Barbara Home Improvement Center has more employees than the Building materials supply dealers median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.2. 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
2024 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2023 14.6 11.4 9 0 0
2022 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2021 3.4 3.4 1 1 0
2020 5.2 5.2 3 0 0
2019 4.8 3.2 2 1 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.7 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

444190 · CA · Santa Barbara

1,643 Building materials supply dealers 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 Pella Products Inc 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Secor Lumber 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yorkville 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Central Lumber 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sunset Farms, Inc 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Martinelli Vineyard Managment, Inc 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE WESTVIEW BERRY FARMS 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE DJRAS CORP DBA PRIME HARVEST CONTRACTING 75 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 Silverdale Office 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR S05280 - Columbia Hauling 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Knutson Construction Midwest 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Augusta Coating and Manufacturing 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE USC Elementary 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Menomonee Falls 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roger Sherman School 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE TGI Fridays Chicago Midway 75 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.