Water treatment and distribution · California

Vallecitos Water District

San Marcos, CA · ~111 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vallecitos Water District runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Water treatment and distribution workplace, earning a grade D.

Vallecitos Water District: 2.0 TCR = 166% of Water treatment and distribution BLS 1.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vallecitos Water District safety composite

Vallecitos Water District scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

C

66/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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

Vallecitos Water District: 0.0 → 0.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 57.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.46× in 2024

Vallecitos Water District's TCR rose 0.9 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 57.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · San Marcos, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 2.0 · 166% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #31/176
  • PHOTO San Juan Water Distr…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: San Juan Water District (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vallecitos Water District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vallecitos Water District averages 2.0 TCR (166% of the Water treatment and distribution BLS benchmark).

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

Vallecitos Water District TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=57.9 · 2023=1.9 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 1.2

Where Vallecitos Water District falls in its industry

727 Water treatment and distributi establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 176 Water treatment and distributi employers in California.

Vallecitos Water District (111 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Vallecitos Water District
Vallecitos Water District (111 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Vallecitos Water District has more employees than the Water treatment and distribution median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.2. 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 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2023 1.9 1.9 2 0 0
2022 57.9 55.7 3 50 0
2021 6.8 5.7 6 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 3 0
2019 4.3 4.3 5 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · CA · San Marcos

727 Water treatment and distribution employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 139 employers in San Marcos, 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 San Juan Water District 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Utilities Inc. of Louisiana - Covington 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR JTR field operations 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Englewood Water District 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE CNTRL 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Peterson Ranch 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE KLEEN HARVEST 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Redding Cement 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hunter Industries 967 FTE
CITY-NEAR 08180552 SAN MARCOS MEDICAL CENTER 741 FTE
CITY-NEAR CASMR - SAN MARCOS 615 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAN MARCOS (CASMR) 555 FTE
NAT-TCR Noll Pallet & Lumber Co Inc 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Fieldale Farms - Feed Mill #2 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hatteras Press Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR IP Casino Resort Spa 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE OFS Fitel, LLC. 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Miami Office 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE SUPPLYONE 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Barnett Southern Corporation 111 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, 2022, 2021, 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.