Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground · California

First Responder Emergency Medical Services Inc

Chico, CA · ~93 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.9
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Responder Emergency Medical Services Inc runs at 472% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground workplace, earning a grade F.

First Responder Emergency Medical Services Inc: 17.9 TCR = 472% of Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground BLS 3.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Responder Emergency Medical Services Inc safety composite

First Responder Emergency Medical Services Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 27.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

First Responder Emergency Medical Services Inc: 8.1 → 30.4 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 30.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.53× in 2021

First Responder Emergency Medical Services Inc's TCR rose 22.3 from 8.1 in 2019 to 30.4 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621910 · Chico, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.9 · 472% of ind

  • DART 27.5 DART
  • RANK #82/87
  • PHOTO Billings Operations
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Billings Operations (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Responder Emergency Medical Services Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Responder Emergency Medical Services Inc averages 17.9 TCR (472% of the Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground BLS benchmark).

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

First Responder Emergency Medical Services Inc TCR series: 2019=8.1 · 2020=15.3 · 2021=30.4 · BLS 3.8

Where First Responder Emergency Medical Services Inc falls in its industry

976 Emergency medical transportati establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #82 safest of 87 Emergency medical transportati employers in California.

First Responder Emergency Medical Services Inc (93 employees, TCR 17.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate First Responder Emergency Medical Services Inc
First Responder Emergency Medical Services Inc (93 employees, TCR 17.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

First Responder Emergency Medical Services Inc has more employees than the Emergency medical transportation service median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.3. 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
2021 30.4 27.5 3 18 0
2020 15.3 12.5 6 5 0
2019 8.1 5.4 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · CA · Chico

976 Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 189 employers in Chico, 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 Billings Operations 17.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Victorville Operations 18.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Canandaigua Emergency Squad, Inc. 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Endeavor Emergency Squad, Inc. 17.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mt. View Farming, Inc. 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE PAC-MAN 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE E A & T 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mountain Meadow Mushroom Farms, Inc. 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-11 4,124 FTE
CITY-NEAR Enloe Medical Center Employees 3,831 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 72 2,394 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 521 2,370 FTE
NAT-TCR Avita of Stroudwater 17.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Anderson Center for Autism 17.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Wabash Christian Village 17.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 6957-JAC 17.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bronx TS-132nd St 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Portland Ind. 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlas Putty Products Company 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rockwell American - Plant 45 93 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.