Semiconductor devices manufacturing · California

First Solar California Technology Center

Name: First Solar California Technology Center Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Santa Clara, CA · ~45 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.1
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

First Solar California Technology Center runs at 32% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Semiconductor devices manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

First Solar California Technology Center: 1.1 TCR = 32% of Semiconductor devices manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Solar California Technology Center safety composite

First Solar California Technology Center scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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).

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 1.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers
DART rate: F 2.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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 Solar California Technology Center: 0.0 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2018

First Solar California Technology Center's TCR rose 2.1 from 0.0 in 2017 to 2.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 334413 · Santa Clara, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 32% of ind

DART 2.1 DART
RANK #70/128
PHOTO SICK Savage
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~45 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SICK Savage (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.1
SICK Savage

1.1
MACOM Lowell

1.1
Sumco Phoenix

1.1
SUMCO

1.1

What this shows First Solar California Technology Center averages 1.1 TCR (32% of the Semiconductor devices manufacturing BLS benchmark).

First Solar California Technology Center TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=2.1 · BLS 3.3

Where First Solar California Technology Center falls in its industry

437 Semiconductor devices manufact establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 0.9.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #70 safest of 128 Semiconductor devices manufact employers in California.

First Solar California Technology Center (45 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 216 employees and a TCR of 0.9

First Solar California Technology Center has fewer employees than the Semiconductor devices manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 0.9. 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	2.1	2.1	1	0	0
2017	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

334413 · CA · Santa Clara

437 Semiconductor devices manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 332 employers in Santa Clara, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	SICK Savage	SAVAGE, MN	1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	MACOM Lowell	LOWELL, MA	1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Sumco Phoenix Corporation - Albuquerque	ALBUQUERQUE, NM	1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	SUMCO	PHOENIX, AZ	1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Salinas Transplant Company	SALINAS	45 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Terra Firma Farm	WINTERS	45 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Donald Beeman Farm	WOODLAND	45 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Berry Mist Farms, LP	AROMAS	45 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mission Campus	Santa Clara	6,222 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Pure Storage	Santa Clara	5,595 FTE
CITY-NEAR	2032-02120751	Santa Clara	3,887 FTE
CITY-NEAR	0206-02620751	Santa Clara	3,154 FTE
NAT-TCR	Galveston 209	Galveston, TX	1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Meadowlake Retirement Village	Oklahoma City, OK	1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	S09008 - Ohio Energy Services American	Waynesburg, OH	1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Lockheed Martin Corporation NC-Fort Bragg-Knox Street (1168)	Fort Bragg, NC	1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Atrium Post Acute Care of New Holstein	New Holstein, WI	45 FTE
NAT-SIZE	dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5066	Kissimmee, FL	45 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Above All Garage Door of South Florida Inc.	Miami, FL	45 FTE
NAT-SIZE	300539 Grand Rapids	Kentwood, MI	45 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, 2017. 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.