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

Station 5: Lake

Huntington Beach, CA · ~39 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Station 5: Lake runs at 592% 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.

Station 5: Lake: 18.9 TCR = 592% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Station 5: Lake safety composite

Station 5: Lake scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 62% 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

−26.0

2017→2024

Station 5: Lake injury rate improved

Station 5: Lake's TCR fell 26.0 from 39.2 in 2017 to 13.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 39.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=39.2 · 2018=16.6 · 2022=15.5 · 2023=10.1 · 2024=13.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 18.9 · 592% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #51/87
  • PHOTO The City of Blooming…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 44 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: The City of Bloomington - Fire Dept (0.0 TCR gap)

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Station 5: Lake in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Station 5: Lake averages 18.9 TCR (592% 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

Station 5: Lake TCR series: 2017=39.2 · 2018=16.6 · 2022=15.5 · 2023=10.1 · 2024=13.2 · BLS 3.2

Where Station 5: Lake falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 14% 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 #51 safest of 87 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in California.

Station 5: Lake (39 employees, TCR 18.9) 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 Station 5: Lake
Station 5: Lake (39 employees, TCR 18.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Station 5: Lake has fewer 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
2024 13.2 2.2 6 0 0
2023 10.1 6.1 5 0 1
2022 15.5 11.1 7 0 0
2018 16.6 4.2 8 0 0
2017 39.2 6.5 18 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · CA · Huntington Beach

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 · 216 employers in Huntington Beach, 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 The City of Bloomington - Fire Dept 18.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR VFD Fire Station 1 18.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beecher Fire Protection District 18.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR San Miguel Consolidated Fire Protection District 19.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE San Felipe Farms 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schreiner Brothers Farms 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE TLC Custom Farming Company LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sonoma Valley Vineyards 39 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 Water Department 18.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Accolade Healthcare of Paxton Senior Living 18.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The City of Bloomington - Fire Dept 18.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Palms of Mount Pleasant 18.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corporate 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walter R Earle Corporation 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Terre Haute Hardwoods, LLC, dba/ Kirkham Hardwoods 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Las Vegas North 39 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: 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.