Fire sprinkler system installation · California

Symons Fire Protection

Poway, CA · ~90 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Symons Fire Protection runs at 179% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fire sprinkler system installation workplace, earning a grade D.

Symons Fire Protection: 5.0 TCR = 179% of Fire sprinkler system installation BLS 2.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Symons Fire Protection safety composite

Symons Fire Protection scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

Symons Fire Protection: 4.7 → 9.6 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 9.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.67× in 2020

Symons Fire Protection's TCR rose 4.9 from 4.7 in 2017 to 9.6 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238220 · Poway, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 179% of ind

  • DART 8.4 DART
  • RANK #366/594
  • PHOTO Speer Mechanical
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~90 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Speer Mechanical (0.0 TCR gap)

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Symons Fire Protection in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Symons Fire Protection averages 5.0 TCR (179% of the Fire sprinkler system installation BLS benchmark).

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

Symons Fire Protection TCR series: 2017=4.7 · 2018=4.6 · 2019=1.2 · 2020=9.6 · BLS 2.8

Where Symons Fire Protection falls in its industry

5,793 Fire sprinkler system installa establishments

Safer than 34% 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 #366 safest of 594 Fire sprinkler system installa employers in California.

Symons Fire Protection (90 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 Symons Fire Protection
Symons Fire Protection (90 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 60 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Symons Fire Protection has more employees than the Fire sprinkler system installation median and a higher 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
2020 9.6 8.4 8 0 0
2019 1.2 1.2 1 0 0
2018 4.6 4.6 4 0 0
2017 4.7 4.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238220 · CA · Poway

5,793 Fire sprinkler system installation 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 Speer Mechanical 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kaiser Air Conditioning & Sheet Metal 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR A. Durer, Inc 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Production Plus Plumbing, Inc 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE HM Clause - Davis West Research Station 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holland America Flowers, LLC 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hettinga - California 90 FTE
STATE-SIZE A & R Contracting 90 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 Amzl : Dil1 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Franklin Woods Center 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR North Garden Sawmill 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR True Value Harvard RDC 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Shelby County 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brackenville Center 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE Siler City Center 90 FTE
NAT-SIZE caravan ingredient inc 90 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.