Emergency road services (i.e., tow service) · California

Swink's Towing

Simi Valley, CA · ~24 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Swink's Towing runs at 134% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Emergency road services (i.e., tow service) workplace, earning a grade D.

Swink's Towing: 6.0 TCR = 134% of Emergency road services (i.e., tow service) BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Swink's Towing safety composite

Swink's Towing scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), 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).

D

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 6.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

Swink's Towing: 0.0 → 3.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 10.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.55× in 2020

Swink's Towing's TCR rose 3.3 from 0.0 in 2017 to 3.3 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.4 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 488410 · Simi Valley, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 134% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #41/48
  • PHOTO Voigt Inc Goleta
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Voigt Inc Goleta (0.0 TCR gap)

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Swink's Towing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Swink's Towing averages 6.0 TCR (134% of the Emergency road services (i.e., tow service) BLS benchmark).

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

Swink's Towing TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=10.4 · 2019=10.4 · 2020=3.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Swink's Towing falls in its industry

157 Emergency road services (i.e., establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #41 safest of 48 Emergency road services (i.e., employers in California.

Swink's Towing (24 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 5.3 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 Swink's Towing
Swink's Towing (24 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 40 employees and a TCR of 5.3

Swink's Towing has fewer employees than the Emergency road services (i.e., tow servi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.3. 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 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2019 10.4 10.4 3 0 0
2018 10.4 10.4 3 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

488410 · CA · Simi Valley

157 Emergency road services (i.e., tow service) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 139 employers in Simi Valley, 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 Voigt Inc Goleta 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CEDAR BLUFF TOWING, INC. 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allied Gardens Towing, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Department of Streets & Sanitation - Bureau of Traffic Services 5.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Agro-Jal Farming Enterprises 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE MTD Farms 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marc Pura Ranch, LLC 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Costa Farms 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meggitt Safety Systems, Inc. 563 FTE
CITY-NEAR 9292-AHSV001 - HOSPITAL 555 FTE
CITY-NEAR City of Simi Valley 520 FTE
CITY-NEAR Milgard Manufacturing Simi Valley CA 511 FTE
NAT-TCR Handwerk Site Contractors 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Fre 14 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 0000000094 Quickchek Food Stores 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Autocar Trucks Birmingham 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wz Wisco 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Private Duty Comprehensive Services Inc. 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE 06 Rockwood 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toledo (W700) 24 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.