Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) · California

Fresno Fire Department

Name: Fresno Fire Department Workplace Safety Data
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Fresno, CA · ~351 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 13.6
Avg TCR: 3.2
Industry avg: 2
Fatalities

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The verdict

Fresno Fire Department runs at 424% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) workplace, earning a grade F.

Fresno Fire Department: 13.6 TCR = 424% of Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fresno Fire Department safety composite

Fresno Fire Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 31% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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).

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 13.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers
DART rate: F 8.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers
Fatalities: F 2

Safer than 1% 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

Fresno Fire Department: 10.1 → 21.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 21.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2019

Fresno Fire Department's TCR rose 11.2 from 10.1 in 2017 to 21.3 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Fresno, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.6 · 424% of ind

DART 8.9 DART
RANK #36/87
PHOTO Fire - Station 5
BOOK 3y book
INJ 151 inj
SIZE ~351 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire - Station 5 (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Fresno Fire Department averages 13.6 TCR (424% of the Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) BLS benchmark).

Fresno Fire Department TCR series: 2017=10.1 · 2018=9.3 · 2019=21.3 · BLS 3.2

Where Fresno Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Firefighting (except forest), establishments

Safer than 31% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #36 safest of 87 Firefighting (except forest), employers in California.

Fresno Fire Department (351 employees, TCR 13.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Fresno Fire Department has more employees than the Firefighting (except forest), government 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
2019	21.3	8.9	78	22	0
2018	9.3	6.7	39	6	2
2017	10.1	8.7	34	15	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · CA · Fresno

793 Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 981 employers in Fresno, 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	Fire - Station 5	MANCHESTER, CT	13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Fire Station	SHAKOPEE, MN	13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Eugene/Springfield - Fire Station 3	SPRINGFIELD, OR	13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	City of Albany Fire Station 13	ALBANY, OR	13.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Branch 420	SAN JOSE	351 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Tak Communications CA	SACRAMENTO	351 FTE
STATE-SIZE	PCI Bay Area Interior	ALAMEDA	351 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Bumble Bee Seafoods - Santa Fe Springs	SANTA FE SPRINGS	351 FTE
CITY-NEAR	County of Fresno	Fresno	7,553 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Ag Force LLC	Fresno	6,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Community Regional Medical Ctr	Fresno	5,549 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Community Regional Medical Center	Fresno	4,921 FTE
NAT-TCR	East Jordan Plastics, East Jordan Facility	East Jordan, MI	13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	PAM Rehabilitation Hospital of Beaumont	Beaumont, TX	13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	City of Isle of Palms	Isle of Palms, SC	13.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Guilderland	Slingerlands, NY	13.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Mayfield - Athens TN	Athens, TN	351 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Courthouse	Salem, OR	351 FTE
NAT-SIZE	GDC Technics - AFW	Fort Worth, TX	351 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Kolpak	Parsons, TN	351 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: 2019, 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.