Rebar contractors · California

Vista Steel Company

Goleta, CA · ~20 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vista Steel Company runs at 224% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Rebar contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

Vista Steel Company: 6.3 TCR = 224% of Rebar contractors BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vista Steel Company safety composite

Vista Steel Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 21%), 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 6.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

Vista Steel Company: 0.0 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 14.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.77× in 2024

Vista Steel Company's TCR rose 4.8 from 0.0 in 2020 to 4.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.77× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238120 · Goleta, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.3 · 224% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #64/96
  • PHOTO Gabriel Steel Erecto…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gabriel Steel Erectors, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vista Steel Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vista Steel Company averages 6.3 TCR (224% of the Rebar contractors BLS benchmark).

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

Vista Steel Company TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=5.5 · 2022=6.8 · 2023=14.2 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 2.8

Where Vista Steel Company falls in its industry

705 Rebar contractors establishments

Safer than 28% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #64 safest of 96 Rebar contractors employers in California.

Vista Steel Company (20 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 050100150200250 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Vista Steel Company
Vista Steel Company (20 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Vista Steel Company has fewer employees than the Rebar contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2024 4.8 4.8 1 0 0
2023 14.2 7.1 2 0 0
2022 6.8 6.8 1 0 0
2021 5.5 5.5 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238120 · CA · Goleta

705 Rebar contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 98 employers in Goleta, 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 Gabriel Steel Erectors, Inc 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Refa Steel Erectors 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Erection, LLC 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR II in One Contractors 6.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sills Farms, Inc. 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE F A Maggiore & Sons, LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE CALMEX CONTRACTING INC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Velvet Antler Ranch LLC 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Goleta_CA_RVS 843 FTE
CITY-NEAR Teledyne FLIR, Goleta 555 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Goleta_CA_EW 437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Apeel Technology, Inc. 375 FTE
NAT-TCR Young's Landscape Mgmt Inc 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Archer Wire International Bedford Park 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sharon Center 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cardinal Civil Contracting, LLC 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ji&M General Scrap 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Overland Park Residence Inn 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Winchester Precision Technologies, Ltd. 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Booms Stone Company 20 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. 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.