Solar Panel Installation · Hawaii

402-HI-Big Island

Kona, HI · ~30 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

402-HI-Big Island runs at 81% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Solar Panel Installation workplace, earning a grade C.

402-HI-Big Island: 2.3 TCR = 81% of Solar Panel Installation BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

402-HI-Big Island safety composite

402-HI-Big Island scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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).

D

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

402-HI-Big Island: 0.0 → 4.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 4.6 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2018

402-HI-Big Island's TCR rose 4.6 from 0.0 in 2017 to 4.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Kona, HI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.3 · 81% of ind

  • DART 4.6 DART
  • RANK #11/30
  • PHOTO DeRock Electric Comp…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DeRock Electric Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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402-HI-Big Island in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 402-HI-Big Island averages 2.3 TCR (81% of the Solar Panel Installation BLS benchmark).

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

402-HI-Big Island TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=4.6 · BLS 2.8

Where 402-HI-Big Island falls in its industry

4,550 Solar Panel Installation establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Hawaii alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 30 Solar Panel Installation employers in Hawaii.

402-HI-Big Island (30 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 402-HI-Big Island
402-HI-Big Island (30 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

402-HI-Big Island has fewer employees than the Solar Panel Installation median and a lower 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 4.6 4.6 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · HI · Kona

4,550 Solar Panel Installation employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,022 rated employers in Hawaii with headcount on file · 6 employers in Kona, HI · 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 DeRock Electric Company 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Allison-Smith Co. - South Carolina 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sharlen Electric Co. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR JBEC 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Terraformation Inc. 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE ERIK BUILDERS, INC. 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alakona Corp. 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE MK Electric LLC 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR DGS Aviation Services : KOA - Kona 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR KOA KOA 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6925-KOA 66 FTE
CITY-NEAR KOA - Airport United Airlines Offices 48 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #5127 Cuyahoga Falls, 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Lots Store #1834 Vestal, New York 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bryn Mawr Medical Specialists Association 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR TampaShip LLC 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nexeo Solutions - Cincinnati 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nexeo Solutions - Denver 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5295 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stevedoring 30 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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