Pest control (except agricultural, forestry) services · California

Home Guard Pest Control, Inc

Escondido, CA · ~33 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.6
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Home Guard Pest Control, Inc runs at 325% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pest control (except agricultural, forestry) services workplace, earning a grade F.

Home Guard Pest Control, Inc: 14.6 TCR = 325% of Pest control (except agricultural, forestry) services BLS 4.5 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Home Guard Pest Control, Inc safety composite

Home Guard Pest Control, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

F

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

Home Guard Pest Control, Inc: 12.7 → 16.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 16.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2023

Home Guard Pest Control, Inc's TCR rose 3.8 from 12.7 in 2021 to 16.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 561710 · Escondido, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.6 · 325% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #207/214
  • PHOTO Enviropest
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Enviropest (0.0 TCR gap)

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Home Guard Pest Control, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Home Guard Pest Control, Inc averages 14.6 TCR (325% of the Pest control (except agricultural, forestry) services BLS benchmark).

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

Home Guard Pest Control, Inc TCR series: 2021=12.7 · 2023=16.6 · BLS 4.5

Where Home Guard Pest Control, Inc falls in its industry

1,655 Pest control (except agricultu establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #207 safest of 214 Pest control (except agricultu employers in California.

Home Guard Pest Control, Inc (33 employees, TCR 14.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 4.7 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 020406080100120 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Home Guard Pest Control, Inc
Home Guard Pest Control, Inc (33 employees, TCR 14.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 30 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Home Guard Pest Control, Inc has more employees than the Pest control (except agricultural, fores median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. 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 16.6 8.3 4 2 0
2021 12.7 6.4 2 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

561710 · CA · Escondido

1,655 Pest control (except agricultural, forestry) services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 244 employers in Escondido, 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 Enviropest 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Moxie Pest Control Maryland LLC 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Greensboro Terminix 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bay County Mosquito Control 14.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tutti Frutti Farms 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE EL CENTRO 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE BULLSEYE FARMS 18 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE River Vista Farms LLC 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA Escondido 4,667 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palomar Medical Center Escondido 3,031 FTE
CITY-NEAR Escondido CA 1,546 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bergelectric Corp. CA 1,279 FTE
NAT-TCR Spee Dee Delivery Service, Inc - Sioux Falls 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Nisbet Brower Components 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CSWCHA 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 4186-DC209 14.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Marshall & Evans Electric, Inc. 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rockingham Resource Center - PNG 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fire Foe Corporation 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Groendyke Transport - Longview 33 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, 2021. 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.