Painting (except roof) contractors · California

Spruce Painting, Inc

Solana Beach, CA · ~35 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Spruce Painting, Inc runs at 167% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Painting (except roof) contractors workplace, earning a grade D.

Spruce Painting, Inc: 4.7 TCR = 167% of Painting (except roof) contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Spruce Painting, Inc safety composite

Spruce Painting, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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 4.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Spruce Painting, Inc: 3.2 → 6.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 6.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.32× in 2024

Spruce Painting, Inc's TCR rose 3.0 from 3.2 in 2023 to 6.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238320 · Solana Beach, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.7 · 167% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #71/124
  • PHOTO Paducah River Painting
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Paducah River Painting (0.0 TCR gap)

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Spruce Painting, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Spruce Painting, Inc averages 4.7 TCR (167% of the Painting (except roof) contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Spruce Painting, Inc TCR series: 2023=3.2 · 2024=6.2 · BLS 2.8

Where Spruce Painting, Inc falls in its industry

582 Painting (except roof) contrac establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #71 safest of 124 Painting (except roof) contrac employers in California.

Spruce Painting, Inc (35 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Spruce Painting, Inc
Spruce Painting, Inc (35 employees, TCR 4.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Spruce Painting, Inc has fewer employees than the Painting (except roof) contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 6.2 6.2 2 0 0
2023 3.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238320 · CA · Solana Beach

582 Painting (except roof) contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 21 employers in Solana 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 Paducah River Painting 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Merit Professional Coatings Holdings LLC 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Higham Company Inc 4.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Main Office 4.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE CONSTRUCTION FABRICATION/CARPENTRY/PAINTING/ELECTRIC/PIPE 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meek Ranches LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dresick Farms, Inc. - Farm 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wolfsen Inc 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Solana Beach 338 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flight Operations Support 206 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02327 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR SWY-0029-0029-02327 FAC-02327-SOLANA BEACH-CA 97 FTE
NAT-TCR The Estates at Chateau 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Winslow House Care Center 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Texas Chiller Systems 4.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Varmd - Richmond 4.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sycamore Trace 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prairie Hills At Independence 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Melvin Pierce Painting Inc. 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE FV JN Opt Rehab - Spine Center 35 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.