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

Fire Volunteer

Oroville, CA · ~36 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
24.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire Volunteer runs at 778% 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 Volunteer: 24.9 TCR = 778% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire Volunteer safety composite

Fire Volunteer scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 24.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 24.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

−52.2

2016→2018

Fire Volunteer injury rate improved

Fire Volunteer's TCR fell 52.2 from 77.0 in 2016 to 24.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 77.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=77.0 · 2018=24.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 24.9 · 778% of ind

  • DART 24.9 DART
  • RANK #81/87
  • PHOTO Fire Station 1
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Station 1 (0.1 TCR gap)

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Fire Volunteer in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fire Volunteer averages 24.9 TCR (778% 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 Volunteer TCR series: 2016=77 · 2018=24.9 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire Volunteer falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 2% 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 #81 safest of 87 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in California.

Fire Volunteer (36 employees, TCR 24.9) 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 Volunteer
Fire Volunteer (36 employees, TCR 24.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Fire Volunteer has fewer 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
2018 24.9 24.9 1 0 0
2016 77.0 25.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · CA · Oroville

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 · 79 employers in Oroville, 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 Fire Station 1 24.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kensington Vol Fire Department 25.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR NORTHERN REGION : SKU 24.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR NORTHERN REGION : SCU 25.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE River Garden Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Knight Farms 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE J.H. MEEK & SONS INC. 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dirt Farmer and Company 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 66 2,360 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oroville Hospital 1,881 FTE
CITY-NEAR Butte-Glenn Community College District 1,344 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oroville Hospital Post Acute Center 1,340 FTE
NAT-TCR 6458-ZEVA 24.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Chelsea-Kennebec 24.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0144 Portland 24.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZFWY 24.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE BFX Fire 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northwest Community Healthcare Medical Group at 500 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5290 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5221 36 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: 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.