Ambulance services, air or ground · California

AirCare Ambulance

Carlsbad, CA · ~68 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AirCare Ambulance runs at 132% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ambulance services, air or ground workplace, earning a grade D.

AirCare Ambulance: 5.0 TCR = 132% of Ambulance services, air or ground BLS 3.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AirCare Ambulance safety composite

AirCare Ambulance scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
D 6.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

AirCare Ambulance: 1.9 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2024

AirCare Ambulance's TCR rose 5.9 from 1.9 in 2018 to 7.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621910 · Carlsbad, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 132% of ind

  • DART 6.2 DART
  • RANK #21/87
  • PHOTO Sunstar Paramedics
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sunstar Paramedics (0.0 TCR gap)

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AirCare Ambulance in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AirCare Ambulance averages 5.0 TCR (132% of the Ambulance services, air or ground BLS benchmark).

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

AirCare Ambulance TCR series: 2018=1.9 · 2019=8.8 · 2023=1.5 · 2024=7.8 · BLS 3.8

Where AirCare Ambulance falls in its industry

976 Ambulance services, air or gro establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 87 Ambulance services, air or gro employers in California.

AirCare Ambulance (68 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate AirCare Ambulance
AirCare Ambulance (68 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

AirCare Ambulance has fewer employees than the Ambulance services, air or ground median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.3. 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 7.8 6.2 5 0 0
2023 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2019 8.8 8.8 5 0 0
2018 1.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · CA · Carlsbad

976 Ambulance services, air or ground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 218 employers in Carlsbad, 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 Sunstar Paramedics 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lapeer County EMS Station 2 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Station 4-14 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR NEMT Stat Air Coop 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE California Valley Land Co. 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE MCFFO 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE VinePro Vineyard Management, Inc. 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knights Grapevine Nursery 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thermo Fisher Scientific 2,234 FTE
CITY-NEAR Legoland California Resort 2,055 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bergelectric Corp. CA 1,520 FTE
CITY-NEAR Life Sciences Solutions Group (LSG) Remote Employees 1,350 FTE
NAT-TCR Atlanta Consolidated Warehouse - ACW 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 39 Brentwood Rd 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ashcraft/European Bakery, L.P. 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand Western 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE C&B Nashville, TN 160 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shurpac Inc 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Union Pier Terminal 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cummings Properties - Beverly 68 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, 2019, 2018. 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.