Installation of photovoltaic panels · California

Alternative Energy Systems

Chico, CA · ~64 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Alternative Energy Systems runs at 296% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Installation of photovoltaic panels workplace, earning a grade F.

Alternative Energy Systems: 8.3 TCR = 296% of Installation of photovoltaic panels BLS 2.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alternative Energy Systems safety composite

Alternative Energy Systems scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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 8.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Alternative Energy Systems: 0.0 → 17.4 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 17.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.63× in 2022

Alternative Energy Systems's TCR rose 17.4 from 0.0 in 2017 to 17.4 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Chico, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 296% of ind

  • DART 13.5 DART
  • RANK #480/548
  • PHOTO Romanoff Electric Re…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Romanoff Electric Residential - Raleigh (0.0 TCR gap)

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Alternative Energy Systems in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Alternative Energy Systems averages 8.3 TCR (296% of the Installation of photovoltaic panels BLS benchmark).

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

Alternative Energy Systems TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=3 · 2019=10.4 · 2021=10.7 · 2022=17.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Alternative Energy Systems falls in its industry

4,550 Installation of photovoltaic p establishments

Safer than 8% 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 #480 safest of 548 Installation of photovoltaic p employers in California.

Alternative Energy Systems (64 employees, TCR 8.3) 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 Alternative Energy Systems
Alternative Energy Systems (64 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Alternative Energy Systems has more employees than the Installation of photovoltaic panels 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
2022 17.4 13.5 4 5 0
2021 10.7 2.1 1 4 0
2019 10.4 10.4 7 0 0
2018 3.0 1.5 2 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · CA · Chico

4,550 Installation of photovoltaic panels employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 189 employers in Chico, 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 Romanoff Electric Residential - Raleigh 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CCI:CC016 - CC016-Colorado 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lantek Communications Inc. 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Design Electric, Inc. 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Costa Farms, Inc. 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE MDERA 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE AGS FARM LABOR CORPORATION 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arroyo Seco Vineyards, Inc 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-11 4,124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Enloe Medical Center Employees 3,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 72 2,394 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 521 2,370 FTE
NAT-TCR Mazda Toyota Manufacturing, U.S.A., Inc. 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Savannah 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Newport News Police Department 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0017-0017-00250 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Klx LLC 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parsec COI 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crimson Warehouse 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wire Design 64 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: 2022, 2021, 2019, 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.