Photovoltaic solar energy generation systems and battery energy storage products,primarily for residential customers · California

BRANCH - CA - Orange County

Irvine, CA · ~194 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

BRANCH - CA - Orange County runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Photovoltaic solar energy generation systems and battery energy storage products,primarily for residential customers workplace, earning a grade C.

BRANCH - CA - Orange County: 2.7 TCR = 95% of Photovoltaic solar energy generation systems and battery energy storage products,primarily for residential customers BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

BRANCH - CA - Orange County safety composite

BRANCH - CA - Orange County scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

BRANCH - CA - Orange County: 1.6 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.42× in 2024

BRANCH - CA - Orange County's TCR rose 2.2 from 1.6 in 2021 to 3.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.42× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Irvine, CA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 95% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #259/548
  • PHOTO DNB ELECTRICAL CONTR…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~194 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: DNB ELECTRICAL CONTRACTING INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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BRANCH - CA - Orange County in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows BRANCH - CA - Orange County averages 2.7 TCR (95% of the Photovoltaic solar energy generation systems and battery energy storage products,primarily for residential customers BLS benchmark).

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

BRANCH - CA - Orange County TCR series: 2021=1.6 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 2.8

Where BRANCH - CA - Orange County falls in its industry

4,550 Photovoltaic solar energy gene establishments

Safer than 47% 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 #259 safest of 548 Photovoltaic solar energy gene employers in California.

BRANCH - CA - Orange County (194 employees, TCR 2.7) 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 BRANCH - CA - Orange County
BRANCH - CA - Orange County (194 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

BRANCH - CA - Orange County has more employees than the Photovoltaic solar energy generation sys 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
2024 3.8 3.8 9 0 0
2021 1.6 1.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · CA · Irvine

4,550 Photovoltaic solar energy generation systems and battery energy storage products,primarily for residential customers 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 DNB ELECTRICAL CONTRACTING INC 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anderson & Howard 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arrow Electric Co, Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pacific Power Electrical Contracting LLC 2.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE GARCIACO FARMING INC 194 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tulelake 194 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sorrento Berry Farms, LLC - Oxnard 194 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenfield Ag Services INC 194 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 Moody Corp 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR H.M. Richards, Inc. 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pilgrim's Pride Commerce Hatchery 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR USA Environmental, Inc 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bristol Metals 194 FTE
NAT-SIZE Care One at Wellington 194 FTE
NAT-SIZE Careone at Oradell 194 FTE
NAT-SIZE Care One at Newton 194 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.