Fire and rescue service · California

Jr. Lifeguard HQ

Huntington Beach, CA · ~19 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Jr. Lifeguard HQ runs at 196% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fire and rescue service workplace, earning a grade D.

Jr. Lifeguard HQ: 6.3 TCR = 196% of Fire and rescue service BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Jr. Lifeguard HQ safety composite

Jr. Lifeguard HQ scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

C

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Jr. Lifeguard HQ: 12.5 → 1442.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 1442.3 TCR · DART/TCR 115.2× in 2024

Jr. Lifeguard HQ's TCR rose 1429.8 from 12.5 in 2017 to 1442.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 115.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Huntington Beach, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 196% of ind

  • DART 721.1 DART
  • RANK #16/87
  • PHOTO Kingman Fire Departm…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kingman Fire Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Jr. Lifeguard HQ in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Jr. Lifeguard HQ averages 6.3 TCR (196% of the Fire and rescue service BLS benchmark).

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

Jr. Lifeguard HQ TCR series: 2017=12.5 · 2018=97.2 · 2022=86.8 · 2023=0 · 2024=1442.3 · BLS 3.2

Where Jr. Lifeguard HQ falls in its industry

793 Fire and rescue service establishments

Safer than 71% 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 #16 safest of 87 Fire and rescue service employers in California.

Jr. Lifeguard HQ (19 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 Jr. Lifeguard HQ
Jr. Lifeguard HQ (19 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Jr. Lifeguard HQ has fewer employees than the Fire and rescue service 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
2024 1442.3 721.1 5 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 86.8 0.0 1 0 0
2018 97.2 21.6 9 0 0
2017 12.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · CA · Huntington Beach

793 Fire and rescue service employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 216 employers in Huntington Beach, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Kingman Fire Department 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kill Devil Hills Fire/EMS 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Goldsboro/Fire Station 1 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Royal Oak - Fire Departments 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE A. OSEGUERA CO., INC. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE TEIXEIRA FARMS INC 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Golden R, Inc. 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE PEDRAZZI FARMS 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA015 2,174 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 389 846 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bolsa 648 FTE
CITY-NEAR 111 - Huntington Beach 572 FTE
NAT-TCR S04990 - WM of NY Buffalo Chaffee 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Equipment Rental Co 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR A&E Grinding 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Flexfab Horizons International 6.3 TCR

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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2018, 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.