Ambulance and fire service combined · Illinois

Braidwood Fire Protection District

Braidwood, IL · ~53 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Braidwood Fire Protection District runs at 242% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade F.

Braidwood Fire Protection District: 7.7 TCR = 242% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Braidwood Fire Protection District safety composite

Braidwood Fire Protection District 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 7.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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

Braidwood Fire Protection District: 0.0 → 3.8 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 16.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Braidwood Fire Protection District's TCR rose 3.8 from 0.0 in 2018 to 3.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 16.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 242% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #94/262
  • PHOTO Liberty Fire Protect…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Liberty Fire Protection District (0.0 TCR gap)

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Braidwood Fire Protection District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Braidwood Fire Protection District averages 7.7 TCR (242% of the Ambulance and fire service combined BLS benchmark).

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

Braidwood Fire Protection District TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=7.7 · 2020=16.9 · 2021=11.4 · 2022=10.7 · 2023=3.7 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 3.2

Where Braidwood Fire Protection District falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 62% 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 #94 safest of 262 Ambulance and fire service com employers in Illinois.

Braidwood Fire Protection District (53 employees, TCR 7.7) 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 Braidwood Fire Protection District
Braidwood Fire Protection District (53 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Braidwood Fire Protection District has fewer employees than the Ambulance and fire service combined 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
2024 3.8 0.0 0 1 0
2023 3.7 0.0 1 0 0
2022 10.7 3.6 3 0 0
2021 11.4 3.8 3 0 0
2020 16.9 0.0 4 0 0
2019 7.7 0.0 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Braidwood

793 Ambulance and fire service combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 4 employers in Braidwood, 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 Liberty Fire Protection District 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Anchorage Middletown Fire & EMS 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Oak Forest - Fire 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eugene/Springfield - Fire Department 1 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Flamm Orchards Inc 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Princeton IL Research-PRI2 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2505-Mason City, IL 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie State Generating Company - Corporate Office 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reed-Custer School District 291 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reed-Custer School Dist 255U 233 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berkots 313 45 FTE
NAT-TCR Mid Valley Disposal, LLC - Fresno 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Austin,TX - North Base 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR M. Price Distributing Company 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Jamestowne Rehabilitation 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tampa Palm River 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stericycle - Farmingdale,NY 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE CLEVELAND 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cleveland City Forge, Inc. 53 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, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.