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

Belvidere Fire Department

Belvidere, IL · ~29 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Belvidere Fire Department runs at 187% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) workplace, earning a grade D.

Belvidere Fire Department: 6.0 TCR = 187% of Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Belvidere Fire Department safety composite

Belvidere Fire Department 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).

C

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% 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

Belvidere Fire Department: 3.1 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Belvidere Fire Department's TCR rose 3.2 from 3.1 in 2017 to 6.3 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 187% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #63/262
  • PHOTO Westlake Fire Station
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Westlake Fire Station (0.0 TCR gap)

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Belvidere Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Belvidere Fire Department averages 6.0 TCR (187% 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

Belvidere Fire Department TCR series: 2017=3.1 · 2018=8.8 · 2019=5.8 · 2020=6.3 · BLS 3.2

Where Belvidere Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Firefighting (except forest), establishments

Safer than 73% 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 #63 safest of 262 Firefighting (except forest), employers in Illinois.

Belvidere Fire Department (29 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 Belvidere Fire Department
Belvidere Fire Department (29 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Belvidere Fire Department has fewer employees than the Firefighting (except forest), 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 6.3 0.0 1 1 0
2019 5.8 0.0 2 0 0
2018 8.8 0.0 3 0 0
2017 3.1 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Belvidere

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 · 74 employers in Belvidere, 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 Westlake Fire Station 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Greenwich Fire Department 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grant Park 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Southern - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Western - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Eastern - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Belvidere Assembly Plant 3,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Magna Exterirors Belvidere 655 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Mills (Belvidere) 583 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Mills Operations, LLC. 560 FTE
NAT-TCR Meek's Springdale 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Accella Polyurethane Systems LLC - St. Louis 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Saratoga Eagle Sales and Service 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Hamilton County WWTA (Water & Wastewater Treatment Authority) 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Genesis 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Elkader 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Roofing and Sheet Metal, Inc 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE McCauley Bros. Inc. 29 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, 2018, 2017. 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.