Fire extinguisher sales combined with rental and/or service, merchant wholesalers · Nebraska
General Fire & Safety Equipment Company
Lincoln, NE · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 19.4
- Avg TCR
- 2.2
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
General Fire & Safety Equipment Company runs at 882% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire extinguisher sales combined with rental and/or service, merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.
- F
- Failing Safety Record
- 19.4
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 2.2
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 9
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares General Fire & Safety Equipment Company's OSHA Total Case Rate to the BLS industry benchmark across 2 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). This reflects reported recordable injuries, not an independent safety inspection -- underreporting is a known limitation of employer self-recordkeeping.
Injury rate over time
General Fire & Safety Equipment Company's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 2.2 industry benchmark.
Where General Fire & Safety Equipment Company falls in its industry
410 Fire extinguisher sales combin establishmentsSafer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.1.
General Fire & Safety Equipment Company has an average TCR of 19.4, which is 882% of the industry average (2.2) for Fire extinguisher sales combined with rental and/or service, merchant wholesalers. This is significantly worse than average.
The letter grade is a transparent derived index PlainSafetyScore computes from public OSHA ITA and BLS benchmark data, not an official OSHA rating or safety certification. Full formula and thresholds: Methodology.
Trend analysis for General Fire & Safety Equipment Company
Between 2016 and 2017, General Fire & Safety Equipment Company's Total Case Rate improved from 30.4 to 8.4 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 72% decrease across 1 year of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2017, at a TCR of 8.4, while 2016 saw the highest rate, at 30.4, a spread of 21.9 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.
Summed across those 2 reporting years, General Fire & Safety Equipment Company recorded 9 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 2-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from General Fire & Safety Equipment Company's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 423990 - Fire extinguisher sales combined with rental and/or service, merchant wholesalers.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2017)
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
0 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 47,349 hours worked = 0.00 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| General Fire & Safety Equipment Company (this establishment) | 19.41 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 2-year avg |
| Nebraska state avg (all industries) | 4.84 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by General Fire & Safety Equipment Company to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2017: 2 reportable incidents · 2 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2016: 7 reportable incidents · 7 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 8.4 | 0.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 30.4 | 13.0 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on General Fire & Safety Equipment Company's reported OSHA injury record versus its Fire extinguisher sales combined with rental and/or service, merchant wholesalers peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.
- At 882% of the Fire extinguisher sales combined with rental and/or service, merchant wholesalers benchmark, General Fire & Safety Equipment Company reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
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Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.