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

Tulare County Fire

Visalia, CA · ~161 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
23.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Tulare County Fire runs at 727% 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.

Tulare County Fire: 23.3 TCR = 727% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tulare County Fire safety composite

Tulare County Fire scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 23.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 26.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% 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

Tulare County Fire: 11.5 → 45.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 45.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2022

Tulare County Fire's TCR rose 34.4 from 11.5 in 2017 to 45.9 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Visalia, CA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 23.3 · 727% of ind

  • DART 26.2 DART
  • RANK #73/87
  • PHOTO Eugene/Springfield A…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 47 inj
  • SIZE ~161 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Eugene/Springfield Administration (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · California employers → · Look up another →

Tulare County Fire in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tulare County Fire averages 23.3 TCR (727% 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

Tulare County Fire TCR series: 2017=11.5 · 2018=12.4 · 2022=45.9 · BLS 3.2

Where Tulare County Fire falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 4% 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 #73 safest of 87 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in California.

Tulare County Fire (161 employees, TCR 23.3) 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Tulare County Fire
Tulare County Fire (161 employees, TCR 23.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Tulare County Fire 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
2022 45.9 26.2 14 0 0
2018 12.4 7.3 17 0 0
2017 11.5 4.3 16 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · CA · Visalia

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 · 349 employers in Visalia, 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 Eugene/Springfield Administration 23.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Station 23 Hillsboro 23.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR CITY OF GRANITE CITY FIRE DEPARTMENT 23.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Station 23.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE La Valle Sabbia, Inc. 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE El Espinal FLC 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE Henry Avocado Corporation 161 FTE
STATE-SIZE CA-SONGS Station 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kaweah Delta Health Care District 4,961 FTE
CITY-NEAR Paragon Personnel 2,129 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 194 1,485 FTE
CITY-NEAR California Department of Transportation Facility 473 1,479 FTE
NAT-TCR Porite Jefferson Corporation 23.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Arizona Sunshine Ranch, Inc. 23.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Eugene/Springfield Administration 23.3 TCR
NAT-TCR AN3 Boston, LLC 23.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Westland a Villa Center 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakeview Rehabilitation and Nursing Center 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE PAC 161 FTE
NAT-SIZE 163138-Glenview Po 161 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, 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.