CAL FIRE · California

HEADQUARTERS : Fire Academy

Ione, CA · ~142 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

HEADQUARTERS : Fire Academy runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical CAL FIRE workplace, earning a grade C.

HEADQUARTERS : Fire Academy: 3.8 TCR = 117% of CAL FIRE BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HEADQUARTERS : Fire Academy safety composite

HEADQUARTERS : Fire Academy scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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).

D

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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%).

HEADQUARTERS : Fire Academy held a steady TCR band

HEADQUARTERS : Fire Academy's TCR held near 0.1 from 3.5 in 2017 to 3.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=3.5 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=9.4 · 2023=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 117% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #10/87
  • PHOTO Fire (5300)
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~142 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire (5300) (0.0 TCR gap)

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HEADQUARTERS : Fire Academy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HEADQUARTERS : Fire Academy averages 3.8 TCR (117% of the CAL FIRE BLS benchmark).

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

HEADQUARTERS : Fire Academy TCR series: 2017=3.5 · 2019=2.3 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=1.6 · 2022=9.4 · 2023=3.3 · BLS 3.2

Where HEADQUARTERS : Fire Academy falls in its industry

793 CAL FIRE establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 87 CAL FIRE employers in California.

HEADQUARTERS : Fire Academy (142 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate HEADQUARTERS : Fire Academy
HEADQUARTERS : Fire Academy (142 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

HEADQUARTERS : Fire Academy has more employees than the CAL FIRE median and a lower 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
2023 3.3 3.3 4 0 0
2022 9.4 8.1 4 3 1
2021 1.6 1.6 1 0 0
2020 2.5 2.5 0 2 0
2019 2.3 2.3 2 0 0
2017 3.5 3.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · CA · Ione

793 CAL FIRE employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 7 employers in Ione, 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 Fire (5300) 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Girdwood Fire Department 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire - Town of Black Mountain 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Westmont Fire Department 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Anatolio Munoz 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Capay Farms 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Firestorm Wildland Fire Suppression Inc. 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOLV, Inc 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR CDC MULE CREEK STATE PRISON 1,691 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 327 699 FTE
CITY-NEAR MP ASSOCIATES INC 176 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ione Plant 75 FTE
NAT-TCR McGaha Electric Co.,Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Dicor Corporation 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR W. M. Kelley Company, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR James Austin Company Ludlow Plant 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Las Vegas-Summerlin #158 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE Consolidated School 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kimball Farms Nursing Care Center 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE Inzi Controls Alabama Inc 142 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.