Ambulance and fire service combined · Virginia

CHARLOTTESVILLE-FIRE

Charlotesville, VA · ~96 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

CHARLOTTESVILLE-FIRE runs at 374% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade F.

CHARLOTTESVILLE-FIRE: 12.0 TCR = 374% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

CHARLOTTESVILLE-FIRE safety composite

CHARLOTTESVILLE-FIRE scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 11.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

CHARLOTTESVILLE-FIRE: 11.7 → 12.7 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 14.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.9× in 2019

CHARLOTTESVILLE-FIRE's TCR rose 1.0 from 11.7 in 2016 to 12.7 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 14.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.9× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Charlotesville, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.0 · 374% of ind

  • DART 10.7 DART
  • RANK #24/29
  • PHOTO CITY OF ST CLAIR SHO…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~96 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CITY OF ST CLAIR SHORES FIRE DEPARTMENT (0.0 TCR gap)

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CHARLOTTESVILLE-FIRE in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows CHARLOTTESVILLE-FIRE averages 12.0 TCR (374% 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

CHARLOTTESVILLE-FIRE TCR series: 2016=11.7 · 2017=8.6 · 2018=14.8 · 2019=12.7 · BLS 3.2

Where CHARLOTTESVILLE-FIRE falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 37% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #24 safest of 29 Ambulance and fire service com employers in Virginia.

CHARLOTTESVILLE-FIRE (96 employees, TCR 12.0) 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 CHARLOTTESVILLE-FIRE
CHARLOTTESVILLE-FIRE (96 employees, TCR 12.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

CHARLOTTESVILLE-FIRE has more employees than the Ambulance and fire service combined 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
2019 12.7 10.7 12 1 0
2018 14.8 7.8 15 2 0
2017 8.6 6.7 3 6 0
2016 11.7 5.8 7 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · VA · Charlotesville

793 Ambulance and fire service combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 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 CITY OF ST CLAIR SHORES FIRE DEPARTMENT 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Novato Fire Protection District 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 11.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Branch & Associates Inc 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE Contrack Watts 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE E.J. Wade Construction, LLC 96 FTE
STATE-SIZE BT Richmond 96 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHARLOTTESVILLE-STREETS & SIDEWLK 35 FTE
NAT-TCR Helen M. Simpson Rehabilitation Hospital 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Belvidere Plant 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Advanced Disposal - Norristown Hauling 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Keystone Plant 311 12.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE IMI Precison Engineering 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE BERRYHATT 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1799/17DD Administration 96 FTE
NAT-SIZE Senior Care of Weston Inn 96 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.