General Medical and Surgical Hospital · California

Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital

Solvang, CA · ~115 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
11.9
Avg TCR
7.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital runs at 159% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical General Medical and Surgical Hospital workplace, earning a grade D.

Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital: 11.9 TCR = 159% of General Medical and Surgical Hospital BLS 7.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital safety composite

Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 11.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital: 3.5 → 18.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 27.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2024

Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital's TCR rose 15.2 from 3.5 in 2018 to 18.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 27.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 622110 · Solvang, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 11.9 · 159% of ind

  • DART 14.9 DART
  • RANK #618/662
  • PHOTO Sutter Bay Hospitals…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~115 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sutter Bay Hospitals (30391) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital averages 11.9 TCR (159% of the General Medical and Surgical Hospital BLS benchmark).

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

Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital TCR series: 2018=3.5 · 2019=5 · 2020=9.9 · 2021=4.3 · 2022=27 · 2023=15.3 · 2024=18.7 · BLS 7.5

Where Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital falls in its industry

6,862 General Medical and Surgical H establishments

Safer than 4% 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 #618 safest of 662 General Medical and Surgical H employers in California.

Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital (115 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 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 02,0004,0006,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital
Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital (115 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 492 employees and a TCR of 5.2

Santa Ynez Valley Cottage Hospital has fewer employees than the General Medical and Surgical Hospital median and a higher 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 18.7 14.9 5 10 0
2023 15.3 12.8 5 7 0
2022 27.0 25.6 3 16 0
2021 4.3 4.3 1 2 0
2020 9.9 8.3 5 1 0
2019 5.0 3.3 3 0 0
2018 3.5 3.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

622110 · CA · Solvang

6,862 General Medical and Surgical Hospital employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 12 employers in Solvang, 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 Sutter Bay Hospitals (30391) 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Goleta Valley Cottage Hospital 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kentucky River Medical Center 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Big Horn County Hospital District 11.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Buona Terra Farming 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE ROSE & A FLC 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-CSBU - Covina 115 FTE
STATE-SIZE Visalia Base - Bld: 0080 - 15 115 FTE
CITY-NEAR ALISAL PROPERTIES INC 325 FTE
CITY-NEAR Solvang Lutheran Home, Inc. 174 FTE
CITY-NEAR El Rancho Marketplace - Solvang 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chumash Hotel No. 1, LLC 92 FTE
NAT-TCR Woodcrest Commons 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Green Guy Recycling 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Professional Airlines Services , Inc. 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Nevada St. 11.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE NA-US-CT-Rocky Hill-Brook Street 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE White City EWP - WP 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nowak Construction Co., Inc. 115 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Bernard Electric Cooperative, Inc. 115 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.