Fire and rescue service · California

Novato Fire Protection District

Novato, CA · ~75 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Novato Fire Protection District runs at 373% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire and rescue service workplace, earning a grade F.

Novato Fire Protection District: 11.9 TCR = 373% of Fire and rescue service BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Novato Fire Protection District safety composite

Novato Fire Protection District scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 11.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Novato Fire Protection District: 11.9 → 75.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 75.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.85× in 2018

Novato Fire Protection District's TCR rose 63.9 from 11.9 in 2017 to 75.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Novato, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.9 · 373% of ind

  • DART 10.2 DART
  • RANK #33/87
  • PHOTO Fire Department
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 62 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Novato Fire Protection District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Novato Fire Protection District averages 11.9 TCR (373% 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

Novato Fire Protection District TCR series: 2017=11.9 · 2018=75.9 · BLS 3.2

Where Novato Fire Protection District falls in its industry

793 Fire and rescue service establishments

Safer than 38% 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 #33 safest of 87 Fire and rescue service employers in California.

Novato Fire Protection District (75 employees, TCR 11.9) 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 Novato Fire Protection District
Novato Fire Protection District (75 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Novato Fire Protection District has more employees than the Fire and rescue service 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
2018 75.9 10.2 50 32 0
2017 11.9 11.9 12 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · CA · Novato

793 Fire and rescue service employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 79 employers in Novato, 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 Department 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CHARLOTTESVILLE-FIRE 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CITY OF ST CLAIR SHORES FIRE DEPARTMENT 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 12.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sunset Farms, Inc 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Martinelli Vineyard Managment, Inc 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE WESTVIEW BERRY FARMS 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE DJRAS CORP DBA PRIME HARVEST CONTRACTING 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR BioMarin Pharmaceutical, Inc. 2,276 FTE
CITY-NEAR Township Building Services, Inc. 1,341 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutter Bay Hospitals (30256) 355 FTE
CITY-NEAR Novato Community Hospital (274-NC-HSP) 337 FTE
NAT-TCR Columbus (Necol) 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR k.j's market iga batesboro 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR NOKOMIS 3490 Technology Dr 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Golden Rule Construction Co., Inc. 11.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Haren & Laughlin Construction Co., Inc. 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE ADS Logan Twp. 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Nixa LLC 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Crestview LLC 75 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: 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.