Addition, alteration and renovation general contractors, commercial and institutional building · California

Vance Brown, Inc.

Palo Alto, CA · ~88 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
2.9
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vance Brown, Inc. runs at 19% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Addition, alteration and renovation general contractors, commercial and institutional building workplace, earning a grade A.

Vance Brown, Inc.: 0.5 TCR = 19% of Addition, alteration and renovation general contractors, commercial and institutional building BLS 2.9 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vance Brown, Inc. safety composite

Vance Brown, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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%).

Vance Brown, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Vance Brown, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 1.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=0.0 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 236220 · Palo Alto, CA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 19% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #43/486
  • PHOTO Allen Searcy Builder…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Allen Searcy Builder Contractors (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vance Brown, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vance Brown, Inc. averages 0.5 TCR (19% of the Addition, alteration and renovation general contractors, commercial and institutional building BLS benchmark).

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

Vance Brown, Inc. TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=0.8 · 2024=0 · BLS 2.9

Where Vance Brown, Inc. falls in its industry

4,692 Addition, alteration and renov establishments

Safer than 90% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

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 486 Addition, alteration and renov employers in California.

Vance Brown, Inc. (88 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0100200300400500 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Vance Brown, Inc.
Vance Brown, Inc. (88 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Vance Brown, Inc. has more employees than the Addition, alteration and renovation gene median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2022 1.4 0.7 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

236220 · CA · Palo Alto

4,692 Addition, alteration and renovation general contractors, commercial and institutional building employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 116 employers in Palo Alto, 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 Allen Searcy Builder Contractors 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR James B. Pirtle Construction DBA Pirtle Construction Company 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR XL Construction 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR T. E. Construction Specialties Inc. 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Neil Bassetti Farms, LLC 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Espinosa 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shoei Foods USA, Inc. 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crown Hill Ranches Inc. 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stanford Health Care 16,371 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA-US-CA-Palo Alto-Deer Creek-Office 1,878 FTE
CITY-NEAR Varian, Palo Alto 1,396 FTE
CITY-NEAR Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-10110) 1,227 FTE
NAT-TCR Henley SPW, LLC 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Suffolk Laundry Services, Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Roofing Services & Solutions 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Charlotte Flour Mill 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Apex Express Logistics, LLC 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pal-Serv of Dallas 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alliance Visiting Nurses 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rapid City Store 88 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, 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.