Full-Service Restaurants · California

South Of Nick's Laguna Beach (SONLB)

Laguna Beach, CA · ~56 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
26.2
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

South Of Nick's Laguna Beach (SONLB) runs at 874% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Full-Service Restaurants workplace, earning a grade F.

South Of Nick's Laguna Beach (SONLB): 26.2 TCR = 874% of Full-Service Restaurants BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

South Of Nick's Laguna Beach (SONLB) safety composite

South Of Nick's Laguna Beach (SONLB) scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 0%), 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 26.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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

South Of Nick's Laguna Beach (SONLB): 6.9 → 45.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 45.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.29× in 2024

South Of Nick's Laguna Beach (SONLB)'s TCR rose 38.7 from 6.9 in 2023 to 45.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722511 · Laguna Beach, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 26.2 · 874% of ind

  • DART 7.6 DART
  • RANK #140/141
  • PHOTO LULUS DESTIN LLC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LULUS DESTIN LLC (0.3 TCR gap)

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South Of Nick's Laguna Beach (SONLB) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows South Of Nick's Laguna Beach (SONLB) averages 26.2 TCR (874% of the Full-Service Restaurants BLS benchmark).

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

South Of Nick's Laguna Beach (SONLB) TCR series: 2023=6.9 · 2024=45.6 · BLS 3.0

Where South Of Nick's Laguna Beach (SONLB) falls in its industry

1,091 Full-Service Restaurants establishments

Safer than 0% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #140 safest of 141 Full-Service Restaurants employers in California.

South Of Nick's Laguna Beach (SONLB) (56 employees, TCR 26.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9 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 0100200300400 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate South Of Nick's Laguna Beach (SONLB)
South Of Nick's Laguna Beach (SONLB) (56 employees, TCR 26.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 49 employees and a TCR of 4.9

South Of Nick's Laguna Beach (SONLB) has more employees than the Full-Service Restaurants median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.9. 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 45.6 7.6 18 0 0
2023 6.9 4.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722511 · CA · Laguna Beach

1,091 Full-Service Restaurants employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 24 employers in Laguna Beach, 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 LULUS DESTIN LLC 26.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Max & Erma's Peters Township 26.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nick's Pasadena (NSLA) 26.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR LRCP/Kalispell, LLC 25.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Wallace Brothers 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE New Sun Farms, Inc 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1624 Poole Blvd., Yuba City, CA 95993 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Copperhill 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Montage Laguna Beach 559 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Laguna Beach 411 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2004-00001200 400 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA832 MISSION HOSPITAL LAGUNA BEACH HR 320 FTE
NAT-TCR Ilspr - Springfield 26.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Accolade Healthcare of Danville 26.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Mandere Construction 26.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Troxel Logistics, LLC 26.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Orchards 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0689 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE STR0463 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Anchor Bay at Pocasset 56 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. 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.