Fire prevention offices, government · California

Volunteer Firefighters

Name: Volunteer Firefighters Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Merced, CA · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 4.8
Avg TCR: 3.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Volunteer Firefighters runs at 148% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fire prevention offices, government workplace, earning a grade D.

Volunteer Firefighters: 4.8 TCR = 148% of Fire prevention offices, government BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Volunteer Firefighters safety composite

Volunteer Firefighters scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): B 4.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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

Volunteer Firefighters: 0.0 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 9.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Volunteer Firefighters's TCR rose 9.5 from 0.0 in 2019 to 9.5 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Merced, CA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 148% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #13/87
PHOTO Fire Stations
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Stations (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Volunteer Firefighters averages 4.8 TCR (148% of the Fire prevention offices, government BLS benchmark).

Volunteer Firefighters TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=9.5 · BLS 3.2

Where Volunteer Firefighters falls in its industry

793 Fire prevention offices, gover establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to California alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 87 Fire prevention offices, gover employers in California.

Volunteer Firefighters (21 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Volunteer Firefighters has fewer employees than the Fire prevention offices, government median and a lower 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
2020	9.5	0.0	1	0	0
2019	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · CA · Merced

793 Fire prevention offices, government employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 51,834 rated employers in California with headcount on file · 187 employers in Merced, CA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Fire Stations	ELMHURST, IL	4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	FR-FIRE	CHARLOTTE, NC	4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Milford Fire Department - Station 7	MILFORD, CT	4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Fire Department	HOPKINSVILLE, KY	4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Poso Ridge,LLC	BAKERSFIELD	21 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Fonseca & Fonseca, Inc.	WALNUT GROVE	21 FTE
STATE-SIZE	TELESIS ONION CO., INC.	FIVE POINTS	21 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Mayflower Farms Inc	ARBUCKLE	21 FTE
CITY-NEAR	6403-64030211	Merced	1,404 FTE
CITY-NEAR	64030211-211001 MERCY MEDICAL CENTER MERCED	Merced	1,306 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Dignity Health	Merced	1,279 FTE
CITY-NEAR	2643-64030211-211001	Merced	1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR	American Girl New York	New York, NY	4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Essity Professional Hygiene North America - Menasha Papermill	Menasha, WI	4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ross store 1466	Bloomingdale, IL	4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ross store 1125	Boise, ID	4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Warehouse 23	Bethlehem, PA	21 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Warehouse 17	Plainfield, IN	21 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Regency Court - #504	Jacksonville, FL	21 FTE
NAT-SIZE	504620-Middlebury Po	Middlebury, VT	21 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.