Fire Protection · Illinois

078 Sherman Fire Protection District

Sherman, IL · ~33 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

078 Sherman Fire Protection District runs at 322% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire Protection workplace, earning a grade F.

078 Sherman Fire Protection District: 10.3 TCR = 322% of Fire Protection BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

078 Sherman Fire Protection District safety composite

078 Sherman Fire Protection District scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 10.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.9

2020→2024

078 Sherman Fire Protection District injury rate improved

078 Sherman Fire Protection District's TCR fell 1.9 from 13.6 in 2020 to 11.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 15.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=13.6 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=15.8 · 2024=11.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Sherman, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 322% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #145/262
  • PHOTO Fire Rescue Services
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Rescue Services (0.0 TCR gap)

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078 Sherman Fire Protection District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 078 Sherman Fire Protection District averages 10.3 TCR (322% of the Fire Protection BLS benchmark).

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

078 Sherman Fire Protection District TCR series: 2020=13.6 · 2021=0 · 2022=15.8 · 2024=11.8 · BLS 3.2

Where 078 Sherman Fire Protection District falls in its industry

793 Fire Protection establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #145 safest of 262 Fire Protection employers in Illinois.

078 Sherman Fire Protection District (33 employees, TCR 10.3) 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 078 Sherman Fire Protection District
078 Sherman Fire Protection District (33 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

078 Sherman Fire Protection District has fewer employees than the Fire Protection 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 11.8 0.0 1 0 0
2022 15.8 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 13.6 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Sherman

793 Fire Protection employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 10 employers in Sherman, IL · 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 Fire Rescue Services 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kingman Fire Department Administration Building 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Apex Fire Systems Inc. 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE PharmaCann Dwight 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Konos 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mendota Farm Shop 208 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRG Will County Generating Station 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Villas Senior Care Community- East 147 FTE
CITY-NEAR Villa East #556 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Villa East 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR County Market #231 75 FTE
NAT-TCR Cherry hill Nursing and Rehabilitation 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Depoe Bay Resort 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mom's Meals Logistics 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Blackland Building Supply, Inc 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kansas City Terminal 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Multiwall Sheridan a division of Signode Industrial Group 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE D'Agostino #809 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gristedes #543 33 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.