Colleges Universities and Professional Schools · California
UC Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA · ~10,779 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 1.6
- Avg TCR
- 1.4
- Industry avg
- 1
- Fatality
The verdict
UC Santa Barbara runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Colleges Universities and Professional Schools workplace, earning a grade C.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 1.6
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 1.4
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 1
- worker fatalities on record
Grade compares UC Santa Barbara's OSHA Total Case Rate of 1.6 to the Colleges Universities and Professional Schools BLS benchmark of 1.4 (113% of benchmark) across 8 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
UC Santa Barbara's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 1.4 industry benchmark.
Where UC Santa Barbara falls in its industry
409 Colleges Universities and Prof establishmentsSafer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.3.
Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 20 Colleges Universities and Prof employers in California.
Trend analysis for UC Santa Barbara
Between 2017 and 2024, UC Santa Barbara's Total Case Rate held roughly steady from 1.7 to 1.7 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 3% decrease across 7 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2020, at a TCR of 0.8, while 2023 saw the highest rate, at 1.9, a spread of 1.0 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 8 reporting years, UC Santa Barbara recorded 781 total injuries and illnesses and 1 fatality. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 8-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 781 injuries, 41 illnesses, and 1 fatality shown on this page for UC Santa Barbara are sourced from its own 8 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 611310 - Colleges Universities and Professional Schools.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
87 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 13,640,619 hours worked = 1.28 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| UC Santa Barbara (this establishment) | 1.58 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 8-year avg |
| Universities industry avg | 1.40 | BLS IIF, NAICS 611310 |
| California state avg (all industries) | 5.64 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by UC Santa Barbara to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 113 reportable incidents · 109 injuries, 4 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 125 reportable incidents · 123 injuries, 2 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 105 reportable incidents · 103 injuries, 2 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 81 reportable incidents · 78 injuries, 3 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 53 reportable incidents · 49 injuries, 4 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 114 reportable incidents · 113 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2018: 122 reportable incidents · 113 injuries, 8 illnesses, 1 fatality - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2017: 110 reportable incidents · 93 injuries, 17 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 109 | 4 | 0 |
| 2023 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 123 | 2 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 103 | 2 | 0 |
| 2021 | 1.3 | 1.1 | 78 | 3 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 49 | 4 | 0 |
| 2019 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 113 | 1 | 0 |
| 2018 | 1.8 | 1.4 | 113 | 8 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1.7 | 1.4 | 93 | 17 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on UC Santa Barbara's reported OSHA injury record versus its Colleges Universities and Professional Schools peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 113% of the Colleges Universities and Professional Schools benchmark, UC Santa Barbara reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Colleges Universities and Professional Schools sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.