Freestanding ambulatory surgical centers and clinics · California

Sequoia Surgery Center

Visalia, CA · ~67 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.1
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sequoia Surgery Center runs at 240% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Freestanding ambulatory surgical centers and clinics workplace, earning a grade F.

Sequoia Surgery Center: 9.1 TCR = 240% of Freestanding ambulatory surgical centers and clinics BLS 3.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sequoia Surgery Center safety composite

Sequoia Surgery Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Sequoia Surgery Center: 7.5 → 12.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 12.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2020

Sequoia Surgery Center's TCR rose 4.9 from 7.5 in 2017 to 12.4 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621493 · Visalia, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.1 · 240% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #26/36
  • PHOTO Blue Ridge Surgery C…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~67 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Blue Ridge Surgery Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sequoia Surgery Center in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sequoia Surgery Center averages 9.1 TCR (240% of the Freestanding ambulatory surgical centers and clinics BLS benchmark).

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

Sequoia Surgery Center TCR series: 2017=7.5 · 2018=9.9 · 2019=6.6 · 2020=12.4 · BLS 3.8

Where Sequoia Surgery Center falls in its industry

498 Freestanding ambulatory surgic establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 36 Freestanding ambulatory surgic employers in California.

Sequoia Surgery Center (67 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 6.2 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 0200400600800 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Sequoia Surgery Center
Sequoia Surgery Center (67 employees, TCR 9.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 6.2

Sequoia Surgery Center has more employees than the Freestanding ambulatory surgical centers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.2. 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
2020 12.4 6.2 3 3 0
2019 6.6 4.4 3 0 0
2018 9.9 6.0 4 1 0
2017 7.5 2.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621493 · CA · Visalia

498 Freestanding ambulatory surgical centers and clinics employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 349 employers in Visalia, 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 Blue Ridge Surgery Center 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR General Surgery & Gastro 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Outpatient Surgery Center of Hilton Head 9.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Calle Santa Cruz 9.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sonoma GVIC Ranches 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE MUGU RANCH PARTNERSHIP 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Travaille and Phippen, Inc. 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nurseries 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaweah Delta Health Care District 4,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paragon Personnel 2,129 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 194 1,485 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 473 1,479 FTE
NAT-TCR Methodist Stone Oak Hospital 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Waterbury Operations 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 512 Fort Dodge South 9.1 TCR
NAT-TCR ALB 9.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Enterprise Precast Concrete of Texas 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Van Essen Nursery Company Inc 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Gates South Beach Hotel 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Outpost Natural Foods-Capitol 67 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.