Alarm systems sales combined with installation, repair, or monitoring services · California

First Alarm

Aptos, CA · ~154 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.5
Avg TCR
2.6
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Alarm runs at 136% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Alarm systems sales combined with installation, repair, or monitoring services workplace, earning a grade D.

First Alarm: 3.5 TCR = 136% of Alarm systems sales combined with installation, repair, or monitoring services BLS 2.6 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Alarm safety composite

First Alarm scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

F

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−1.8

2022→2023

First Alarm injury rate improved

First Alarm's TCR fell 1.8 from 4.4 in 2022 to 2.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.4 · 2023=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561621 · Aptos, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.5 · 136% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #18/21
  • PHOTO Global Fire & Safety
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~154 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Global Fire & Safety (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Alarm in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Alarm averages 3.5 TCR (136% of the Alarm systems sales combined with installation, repair, or monitoring services BLS benchmark).

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

First Alarm TCR series: 2022=4.4 · 2023=2.6 · BLS 2.6

Where First Alarm falls in its industry

161 Alarm systems sales combined w establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 21 Alarm systems sales combined w employers in California.

First Alarm (154 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 1.7 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate First Alarm
First Alarm (154 employees, TCR 3.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 42 employees and a TCR of 1.7

First Alarm has more employees than the Alarm systems sales combined with instal median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.7. 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 2.6 1.3 4 0 0
2022 4.4 3.0 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561621 · CA · Aptos

161 Alarm systems sales combined with installation, repair, or monitoring services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 16 employers in Aptos, 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 Global Fire & Safety 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heartland Security Services, LLC 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Safe Haven Security Services LLC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fishers-Corrections FS (SSS,CSS) 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sun Pacific Shippers | Euclid Packinghouse 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE A.M. AG ENTERPRISE, INC. 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE AUBURN SERVICE CENTER 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Van Nuys District HDQ 154 FTE
CITY-NEAR SWY-0025-0025-00640 FAC-00640-APTOS-CA 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6962-SWY 0025 0640 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-00640 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1209 - NLCM Aptos 82 FTE
NAT-TCR Divine House Inc. - Detroit Lakes 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR DATTCO - Thompson 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR A. Brown & Sons Nursery, Inc. 3.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Shippers Warehouse - Orlando 3.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Riverview Plaza 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE Electri-Flex Company 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central MN Senior Care 154 FTE
NAT-SIZE Portland water Bureau Maintenance and Construction 154 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, 2022. 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.