Installation of photovoltaic panels · Texas

Freedom Solar Power - Austin

Austin, TX · ~111 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Freedom Solar Power - Austin runs at 294% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Installation of photovoltaic panels workplace, earning a grade F.

Freedom Solar Power - Austin: 8.2 TCR = 294% of Installation of photovoltaic panels BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Freedom Solar Power - Austin safety composite

Freedom Solar Power - Austin scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.2

2019→2020

Freedom Solar Power - Austin injury rate improved

Freedom Solar Power - Austin's TCR fell 1.2 from 8.8 in 2019 to 7.7 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=8.8 · 2020=7.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238210 · Austin, TX ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 294% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #404/424
  • PHOTO 500 Brush Ave
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 500 Brush Ave (0.0 TCR gap)

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Freedom Solar Power - Austin in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Freedom Solar Power - Austin averages 8.2 TCR (294% of the Installation of photovoltaic panels BLS benchmark).

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

Freedom Solar Power - Austin TCR series: 2019=8.8 · 2020=7.7 · BLS 2.8

Where Freedom Solar Power - Austin falls in its industry

4,550 Installation of photovoltaic p establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Texas alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #404 safest of 424 Installation of photovoltaic p employers in Texas.

Freedom Solar Power - Austin (111 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Freedom Solar Power - Austin
Freedom Solar Power - Austin (111 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Freedom Solar Power - Austin has more employees than the Installation of photovoltaic panels median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2020 7.7 6.1 4 1 0
2019 8.8 8.8 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238210 · TX · Austin

4,550 Installation of photovoltaic panels employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 38,394 rated employers in Texas with headcount on file · 1,645 employers in Austin, TX · 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 500 Brush Ave 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Jersey 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corporate Office 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fred Geller Electrical, Inc 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Supreme Production Services Inc. 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sapphire Gas Solutions, LLC - Main Office 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turbine Maintenance Group 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE BBLbc, LLC 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ensign Services 11,325 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-TX-Austin-Giga Texas 8,621 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-Loc: CORP LOC - US Austin 6,911 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6017-CORP LOC - USA UNITED STATES - AST 5,272 FTE
NAT-TCR 6 Paramus, Nj 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 11100 Firestone Blvd. 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Madison branch 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cardinal Carberry Senior Living Center 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE CH Coakley 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pacific Tomato Growers, Ltd. - Virginia Packing House 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Orem Rehabilitation & Skilled Nursing Center 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hartford Human Service 111 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: 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.