Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) · California

Fire Department

Fairfield, CA · ~75 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
24.4
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire Department runs at 764% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) workplace, earning a grade F.

Fire Department: 24.4 TCR = 764% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire Department safety composite

Fire Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 24.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Fire Department: 10.9 → 28.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 41.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2024

Fire Department's TCR rose 17.4 from 10.9 in 2019 to 28.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 41.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 24.4 · 764% of ind

  • DART 15.3 DART
  • RANK #78/87
  • PHOTO City of Yakima Fire …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 66 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Yakima Fire Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fire Department averages 24.4 TCR (764% of the Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS benchmark).

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

Fire Department TCR series: 2019=10.9 · 2020=13.7 · 2021=29.8 · 2022=41.6 · 2023=22.5 · 2024=28.2 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #78 safest of 87 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in California.

Fire Department (75 employees, TCR 24.4) 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 Fire Department
Fire Department (75 employees, TCR 24.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Fire Department has more employees than the Fire departments (e.g., government, volu 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
2024 28.2 15.3 18 6 0
2023 22.5 21.3 9 10 0
2022 41.6 38.1 10 26 0
2021 29.8 21.7 11 11 0
2020 13.7 8.7 10 1 0
2019 10.9 3.6 8 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · CA · Fairfield

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 172 employers in Fairfield, 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 Yakima Fire Department 24.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SOUTHERN REGION : BEU 24.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Meriden Fire Department Engine #1 24.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Station 4 24.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sunset Farms, Inc 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Martinelli Vineyard Managment, Inc 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE WESTVIEW BERRY FARMS 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE DJRAS CORP DBA PRIME HARVEST CONTRACTING 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 108 2,817 FTE
CITY-NEAR NorthBay Healthcare Medical Center 1,086 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jelly Belly Candy Company 511 FTE
CITY-NEAR Universal Propulsion Company (Fairfield CA) 460 FTE
NAT-TCR Minnesota Metalworks, Inc. 24.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pisgah Valley Retirement Center 24.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Les Schwab Tire Center-Burley 24.4 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Yakima Fire Department 24.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Northern Paving Indirect 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cardinal Health Wabasha/ KPR US LLC 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parts Plant 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waco TX FXFE-WCO 75 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.