Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) · Illinois

Bedford Park Fire Department

Bedford Park, IL · ~60 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.4
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bedford Park Fire Department runs at 420% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) workplace, earning a grade F.

Bedford Park Fire Department: 13.4 TCR = 420% of Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bedford Park Fire Department safety composite

Bedford Park Fire Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Bedford Park Fire Department: 12.7 → 14.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 14.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.66× in 2024

Bedford Park Fire Department's TCR rose 1.5 from 12.7 in 2020 to 14.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Bedford Park, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.4 · 420% of ind

  • DART 8.8 DART
  • RANK #190/262
  • PHOTO 627 MANHATTAN FIRE P…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 627 MANHATTAN FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bedford Park Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bedford Park Fire Department averages 13.4 TCR (420% of the Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) BLS benchmark).

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

Bedford Park Fire Department TCR series: 2020=12.7 · 2024=14.2 · BLS 3.2

Where Bedford Park Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Firefighting (except forest), establishments

Safer than 32% 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 #190 safest of 262 Firefighting (except forest), employers in Illinois.

Bedford Park Fire Department (60 employees, TCR 13.4) 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 Bedford Park Fire Department
Bedford Park Fire Department (60 employees, TCR 13.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Bedford Park Fire Department has more employees than the Firefighting (except forest), government 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 14.2 8.8 8 0 0
2020 12.7 8.1 4 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Bedford Park

793 Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 140 employers in Bedford Park, 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 627 MANHATTAN FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Hartford Fire Department 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Station #82 & Fire Training Center 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Protection 13.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE DAS Grand Ridge, IL 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE VDF Agriculture Department 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE AEP Energy - Chicago 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois American Water (Champaign) 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR MDWPW9669 MDW - OPS 1,757 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILBED - BEDFORD PARK 1,041 FTE
CITY-NEAR BEDFORD PARK (ILBED) 835 FTE
CITY-NEAR 161546-SOUTH SUBURBAN IL P&DC 834 FTE
NAT-TCR Commitment Logistics LLC 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1193 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mepor - Portland 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenhaven Elementary 13.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cornerstone Rehabilitation and Healthcare Center 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Georgia Development Partners 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE AutoGate Inc. 60 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, 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.