Ambulance and fire service combined · California

Apex Fire Systems Inc.

Irvine, CA · ~31 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Apex Fire Systems Inc. runs at 323% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade F.

Apex Fire Systems Inc.: 10.3 TCR = 323% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Apex Fire Systems Inc. safety composite

Apex Fire Systems Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 10.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

−8.1

2018→2023

Apex Fire Systems Inc. injury rate improved

Apex Fire Systems Inc.'s TCR fell 8.1 from 14.0 in 2018 to 5.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 14.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=14.0 · 2019=11.2 · 2023=5.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Irvine, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 323% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #25/87
  • PHOTO City of Edina - Fire…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~31 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Edina - Fire Station 1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Apex Fire Systems Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Apex Fire Systems Inc. averages 10.3 TCR (323% of the Ambulance and fire service combined BLS benchmark).

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

Apex Fire Systems Inc. TCR series: 2018=14 · 2019=11.2 · 2023=5.9 · BLS 3.2

Where Apex Fire Systems Inc. falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 87 Ambulance and fire service com employers in California.

Apex Fire Systems Inc. (31 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Apex Fire Systems Inc.
Apex Fire Systems Inc. (31 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Apex Fire Systems Inc. has fewer employees than the Ambulance and fire service combined median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.8. 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
2023 5.9 3.0 2 0 0
2019 11.2 0.0 4 0 0
2018 14.0 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · CA · Irvine

793 Ambulance and fire service combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 622 employers in Irvine, 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 City of Edina - Fire Station 1 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of New Haven - FIRE 120 Ellsworth Avenue 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 078 SHERMAN FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE GCF 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nielsen Farms 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Star Nurseries LLC 31 FTE
STATE-SIZE Progressive Growers Inc 31 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Irvine 16,029 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-10 4,926 FTE
CITY-NEAR Edwards Lifesciences 4,189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson and Johnson MDD CSS Irvine 3,775 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Edina - Fire Station 1 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Raco Steel Company 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Austin 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Pepsi-Cola of Great Falls 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Transcat- Spectrum 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE HC Manvel, Inc 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Volunteer Metal Systems, LLC 31 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cleveringa Farms 31 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: 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.