Water supply systems · California

Valley Center Municipal Water District

Valley Center, CA · ~71 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
1.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Valley Center Municipal Water District runs at 607% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Water supply systems workplace, earning a grade F.

Valley Center Municipal Water District: 7.3 TCR = 607% of Water supply systems BLS 1.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Valley Center Municipal Water District safety composite

Valley Center Municipal Water District scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 24%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.2

2017→2024

Valley Center Municipal Water District injury rate improved

Valley Center Municipal Water District's TCR fell 8.2 from 14.0 in 2017 to 5.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 14.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=14.0 · 2018=8.8 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=9.2 · 2021=6.4 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=7.5 · 2024=5.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 221310 · Valley Center, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 607% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #136/176
  • PHOTO Coastside County Wat…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~71 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Coastside County Water District (0.0 TCR gap)

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Valley Center Municipal Water District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Valley Center Municipal Water District averages 7.3 TCR (607% of the Water supply systems BLS benchmark).

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

Valley Center Municipal Water District TCR series: 2017=14 · 2018=8.8 · 2019=3.3 · 2020=9.2 · 2021=6.4 · 2022=3.1 · 2023=7.5 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 1.2

Where Valley Center Municipal Water District falls in its industry

727 Water supply systems establishments

Safer than 24% 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 #136 safest of 176 Water supply systems employers in California.

Valley Center Municipal Water District (71 employees, TCR 7.3) 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 Valley Center Municipal Water District
Valley Center Municipal Water District (71 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 4.2

Valley Center Municipal Water District has more employees than the Water supply systems median and a higher 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 5.8 4.4 4 0 0
2023 7.5 7.5 4 1 0
2022 3.1 3.1 2 0 0
2021 6.4 6.4 4 0 0
2020 9.2 3.1 3 3 0
2019 3.3 3.3 1 1 0
2018 8.8 7.0 4 1 0
2017 14.0 7.0 4 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

221310 · CA · Valley Center

727 Water supply systems employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 15 employers in Valley Center, 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 Coastside County Water District 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR City Of Riverside Public Works Sewer Operations 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Home Base 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cedar River Water and Sewer 7.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE M Pineda Farming Co 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE AgSource Services, LLC 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schafer Ranch, Inc 71 FTE
STATE-SIZE R & J Dondero Inc 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR HARRAH'S SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (RINCON) 1,262 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley View Casino and Hotel 1,015 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley View Casino & Hotel 889 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bates Nut Farm 39 FTE
NAT-TCR 55835 Hartford 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Saxton Corporation of Albany 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR The Renaissance Chicago Downtown Hotel 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mill Creek Alz 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Monett Metals 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE BWI 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Times Supermarket - Lihue 71 FTE
NAT-SIZE Air Master Systems Corp 71 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.