General public administration · Virginia

301 Fire, Rescue & Emergency Services

Portsmouth, VA · ~249 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

301 Fire, Rescue & Emergency Services runs at 278% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General public administration workplace, earning a grade F.

301 Fire, Rescue & Emergency Services: 8.9 TCR = 278% of General public administration BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

301 Fire, Rescue & Emergency Services safety composite

301 Fire, Rescue & Emergency Services scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

301 Fire, Rescue & Emergency Services: 6.3 → 11.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.83× in 2018

301 Fire, Rescue & Emergency Services's TCR rose 5.3 from 6.3 in 2017 to 11.6 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.83× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Portsmouth, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.9 · 278% of ind

  • DART 7.4 DART
  • RANK #57/65
  • PHOTO Public Works Departm…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 45 inj
  • SIZE ~249 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Public Works Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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301 Fire, Rescue & Emergency Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 301 Fire, Rescue & Emergency Services averages 8.9 TCR (278% of the General public administration BLS benchmark).

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

301 Fire, Rescue & Emergency Services TCR series: 2017=6.3 · 2018=11.6 · BLS 3.2

Where 301 Fire, Rescue & Emergency Services falls in its industry

1,496 General public administration establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #57 safest of 65 General public administration employers in Virginia.

301 Fire, Rescue & Emergency Services (249 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate 301 Fire, Rescue & Emergency Services
301 Fire, Rescue & Emergency Services (249 employees, TCR 8.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

301 Fire, Rescue & Emergency Services has more employees than the General public administration median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2018 11.6 7.4 29 4 0
2017 6.3 4.8 16 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · VA · Portsmouth

1,496 General public administration employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 137 employers in Portsmouth, VA · 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 Public Works Department 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fleet Services 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Barrington - Public Works Facility 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Southland 249 FTE
STATE-SIZE Consolidated Glass and Mirror, LLC Plant2 249 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guardian Fabrication LLC 249 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anord Mardix (USA), Inc. 249 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maryview Medical Center 1,724 FTE
CITY-NEAR Virginia International Gateway 926 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ceres Hampton Roads 797 FTE
CITY-NEAR Virginia International Gateway by Virginia Interna 545 FTE
NAT-TCR Arc Twin Cities Brooklyn Center 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Just $ave #172 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Livonia Woods-Livonia Woods SNF 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Austin Lighthouse 8.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tuesday Morning Phoenix DC 249 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amcoer Allentown 249 FTE
NAT-SIZE Albany NY Cake (Manning Blvd) Plant 249 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sayville Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 249 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: 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.