Fire and rescue service · Virginia

Charlottesville - Fire

Charlottesville, VA · ~95 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.2
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Charlottesville - Fire runs at 382% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire and rescue service workplace, earning a grade F.

Charlottesville - Fire: 12.2 TCR = 382% of Fire and rescue service BLS 3.2 · 3y 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 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 12.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.72 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

Charlottesville - Fire: 9.6 → 12.2 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 14.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.71× in 2024

Charlottesville - Fire's TCR rose 2.6 from 9.6 in 2022 to 12.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 12.2 · 382% of ind

  • DART 8.7 DART
  • RANK #27/29
  • PHOTO Fire Dept
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Dept (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 12.2 TCR (382% of the Fire and rescue service BLS benchmark).

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

Charlottesville - Fire TCR series: 2022=9.6 · 2023=14.8 · 2024=12.2 · BLS 3.2

Where Charlottesville - Fire falls in its industry

793 Fire and rescue service establishments

Safer than 36% 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 #27 safest of 29 Fire and rescue service employers in Virginia.

Charlottesville - Fire (95 employees, TCR 12.2) 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 (95 employees, TCR 12.2) 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 Fire and rescue service 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 12.2 8.7 10 4 0
2023 14.8 5.2 11 6 0
2022 9.6 6.1 9 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · VA · Charlottesville

793 Fire and rescue service employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 269 employers in Charlottesville, 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 Fire Dept 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ridgefield Fire Department 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Station 209 12.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harlem Roscoe Fire Protection District 12.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE REC - Bowling Green 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Virginia Division Office 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE DC - Clune Construction Company 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jamerson Lewis Construction 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Virginia 11,898 FTE
CITY-NEAR University Of Virginia (209) Health System 10,653 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Virginia Medical Center 8,738 FTE
CITY-NEAR UVA Medical Center 7,268 FTE
NAT-TCR SunRype Concentrates, Inc. 12.2 TCR
NAT-TCR EB Arbors at Ridges 12.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Cambridge Care Center LLC 12.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Valley Distributors 12.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hayashi Telempu North America - Ohio 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crowne Health Care of Thomasville 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Demolition Corporation 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mastercut Tool 95 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. 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.