Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) · California

Orange County Fire Authority

Irvine, CA · ~1,433 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Orange County Fire Authority runs at 508% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) workplace, earning a grade F.

Orange County Fire Authority: 16.3 TCR = 508% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Orange County Fire Authority safety composite

Orange County Fire Authority scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 37% 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).

F

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
D 6.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.9

2018→2019

Orange County Fire Authority injury rate improved

Orange County Fire Authority's TCR fell 3.9 from 18.2 in 2018 to 14.3 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 18.2 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=18.2 · 2019=14.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Irvine, CA ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 16.3 · 508% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #43/87
  • PHOTO City of Internationa…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 644 inj
  • SIZE ~1,433 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of International Falls (Fire / EMS) (0.1 TCR gap)

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Orange County Fire Authority in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Orange County Fire Authority averages 16.3 TCR (508% of the Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS benchmark).

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

Orange County Fire Authority TCR series: 2018=18.2 · 2019=14.3 · BLS 3.2

Where Orange County Fire Authority falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 21% 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 #43 safest of 87 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in California.

Orange County Fire Authority (1,433 employees, TCR 16.3) 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 05001,0001,5002,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Orange County Fire Authority
Orange County Fire Authority (1,433 employees, TCR 16.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Orange County Fire Authority has more employees than the Fire departments (e.g., government, volu 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
2019 14.3 6.1 293 2 1
2018 18.2 8.5 351 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · CA · Irvine

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 622 employers in Irvine, 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 City of International Falls (Fire / EMS) 16.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Albany Fire Station 12 16.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Station #3 16.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR City Of Sacramento-Fire Prevention Roll-Up (120011) 16.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fruit Harvest No 2 Inc 1,433 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1207 Abbott Street Salinas Plant 1,433 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0553 - Fontana CA DC 1,434 FTE
STATE-SIZE Neuropsychiatric Hospital & Institute 1,432 FTE
CITY-NEAR UC Irvine 16,029 FTE
CITY-NEAR CA-10 4,926 FTE
CITY-NEAR Edwards Lifesciences 4,189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson and Johnson MDD CSS Irvine 3,775 FTE
NAT-TCR Glade Valley Center 16.3 TCR
NAT-TCR TopForm, Inc. 16.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 4186-DC10 16.3 TCR
NAT-TCR McCoys Building Supply - Taylor 16.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aurora Medical Center Oshkosh 1,433 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cincinnati Reds 1,433 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nynas - Nassau 1,433 FTE
NAT-SIZE Troy Plant 1,433 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.