Solar Panel Installation · California

109-CA-Orange County

Lake Forest, CA · ~69 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

109-CA-Orange County runs at 339% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Solar Panel Installation workplace, earning a grade F.

109-CA-Orange County: 9.5 TCR = 339% of Solar Panel Installation BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

109-CA-Orange County safety composite

109-CA-Orange County scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

−0.7

2017→2018

109-CA-Orange County injury rate improved

109-CA-Orange County's TCR fell 0.7 from 9.8 in 2017 to 9.1 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.8 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.8 · 2018=9.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Lake Forest, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.5 · 339% of ind

  • DART 8.1 DART
  • RANK #496/548
  • PHOTO Meisner Services
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~69 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Meisner Services (0.0 TCR gap)

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109-CA-Orange County in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 109-CA-Orange County averages 9.5 TCR (339% of the Solar Panel Installation BLS benchmark).

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

109-CA-Orange County TCR series: 2017=9.8 · 2018=9.1 · BLS 2.8

Where 109-CA-Orange County falls in its industry

4,550 Solar Panel Installation establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #496 safest of 548 Solar Panel Installation employers in California.

109-CA-Orange County (69 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 109-CA-Orange County
109-CA-Orange County (69 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

109-CA-Orange County has more employees than the Solar Panel Installation median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2018 9.1 8.1 9 0 0
2017 9.8 9.8 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · CA · Lake Forest

4,550 Solar Panel Installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 90 employers in Lake Forest, 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 Meisner Services 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Triumph Electric 9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Southpaw Electric Company 9.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 122 River St 9.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Woolf Enterprises 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terranova Ranch, Inc 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rayo Shop 69 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Harvesting | Citrus Harvesting 69 FTE
CITY-NEAR Panasonic Avionics Corporation 2,047 FTE
CITY-NEAR ARB, Inc. 1,334 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spectrum Brands, Lake Forest 598 FTE
CITY-NEAR ASSA ABLOY Americas Residential, Inc., Lake Forest 594 FTE
NAT-TCR Romulus ARC 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Madison (Wimad) 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Beavercreek Residence Inn 9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Suiza - Chester 9.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Logan Primary Care - Herrin 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cancer Center 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cohber Press, Inc. 69 FTE
NAT-SIZE DJ Acquisition Management DBA Weco Manufacturing 69 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.