Construction engineering services · California

The Don Chapin Company

Salinas, CA · ~242 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.0
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

The Don Chapin Company runs at 804% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Construction engineering services workplace, earning a grade F.

The Don Chapin Company: 4.0 TCR = 804% of Construction engineering services BLS 0.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

The Don Chapin Company safety composite

The Don Chapin Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

The Don Chapin Company: 3.0 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.96× in 2022

The Don Chapin Company's TCR rose 2.3 from 3.0 in 2020 to 5.3 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541330 · Salinas, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 4.0 · 804% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #68/83
  • PHOTO SODEXO AT BOTSFORD H…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~242 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SODEXO AT BOTSFORD HOSPITAL - EVS (0.0 TCR gap)

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The Don Chapin Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows The Don Chapin Company averages 4.0 TCR (804% of the Construction engineering services BLS benchmark).

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

The Don Chapin Company TCR series: 2020=3 · 2021=3.8 · 2022=5.3 · BLS 0.5

Where The Don Chapin Company falls in its industry

690 Construction engineering servi establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #68 safest of 83 Construction engineering servi employers in California.

The Don Chapin Company (242 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 0.9 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate The Don Chapin Company
The Don Chapin Company (242 employees, TCR 4.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 112 employees and a TCR of 0.9

The Don Chapin Company has more employees than the Construction engineering services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.9. 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
2022 5.3 3.9 9 2 0
2021 3.8 2.8 8 0 0
2020 3.0 2.0 4 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541330 · CA · Salinas

690 Construction engineering services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 337 employers in Salinas, 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 SODEXO AT BOTSFORD HOSPITAL - EVS 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR NEW MODEL PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT CENTER 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR JACKSON LAND DEVELOPMENT, LLC 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Accurate Technologies, Inc 4.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE 2400-Oxnard, CA (Monsanto Co.) 242 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHI Employee Benefit Company 242 FTE
STATE-SIZE NCVM 242 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Santa Rosa - Water Department 242 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing 8,854 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foothill Packing-California 3,255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital 2,197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Salinas Valley Healthcare System 2,133 FTE
NAT-TCR Relyco, Inc. 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 2904-ASM-WV 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sullivan's Morrison Store 4.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-NAI-0035-0035-03257 4.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Technimark LLC - Plant 3 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE MS Companies Murfreesboro Tennessee 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE HoneywellNC03 242 FTE
NAT-SIZE TPI 242 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.