Plumbing contractors · California

R.L. Fick & Son Plumbing, Inc.

Poway, CA · ~58 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

R.L. Fick & Son Plumbing, Inc. runs at 38% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Plumbing contractors workplace, earning a grade A.

R.L. Fick & Son Plumbing, Inc.: 1.1 TCR = 38% of Plumbing contractors BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

R.L. Fick & Son Plumbing, Inc. safety composite

R.L. Fick & Son Plumbing, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

R.L. Fick & Son Plumbing, Inc.: 0.0 → 2.1 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 2.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2.01× in 2022

R.L. Fick & Son Plumbing, Inc.'s TCR rose 2.1 from 0.0 in 2021 to 2.1 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 2.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Poway, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.1 · 38% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #68/594
  • PHOTO Folsom CA Branch
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Folsom CA Branch (0.0 TCR gap)

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R.L. Fick & Son Plumbing, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows R.L. Fick & Son Plumbing, Inc. averages 1.1 TCR (38% of the Plumbing contractors BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-09-26

R.L. Fick & Son Plumbing, Inc. TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=2.1 · BLS 2.8

Where R.L. Fick & Son Plumbing, Inc. falls in its industry

5,793 Plumbing contractors establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #68 safest of 594 Plumbing contractors employers in California.

R.L. Fick & Son Plumbing, Inc. (58 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate R.L. Fick & Son Plumbing, Inc.
R.L. Fick & Son Plumbing, Inc. (58 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

R.L. Fick & Son Plumbing, Inc. has fewer employees than the Plumbing contractors median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2022 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · CA · Poway

5,793 Plumbing contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 143 employers in Poway, 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 Folsom CA Branch 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scott E. Campbell Company 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harris Superior - CA 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR MIAMI 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grocery Outlet Santa Cruz 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Villa De Anza Holdings, LLC 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Signal Hill 8 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE JSB Logistics Corporation 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. - Poway Campus 4,933 FTE
CITY-NEAR Geneal Atomics Facilities and Support Groups 1,169 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palomar Medical Center Poway 889 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Atomics - Poway - A15 661 FTE
NAT-TCR Clean Harbors Industrial Services Inc 4618 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Farmers Gin, Inc. 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Harris & Hart, Inc. - Tesla 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Industrial Service of Ohio 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE LifeSkills Adult Crisis Stabilization Unit (ACSU) 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6458-ZEFH 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mansur Trucking Inc 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bed Bath and Beyond Springfield NJ 58 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: 2022, 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.