Fire and rescue service · Illinois

Chatham Fire Department

Chatham, IL · ~38 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Chatham Fire Department runs at 519% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire and rescue service workplace, earning a grade F.

Chatham Fire Department: 16.6 TCR = 519% of Fire and rescue service BLS 3.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chatham Fire Department safety composite

Chatham Fire Department scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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%).

TCR Δ

−28.2

2017→2024

Chatham Fire Department injury rate improved

Chatham Fire Department's TCR fell 28.2 from 35.3 in 2017 to 7.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 112.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=35.3 · 2018=112.8 · 2019=60.5 · 2020=97.1 · 2021=12.4 · 2022=19.0 · 2023=9.3 · 2024=7.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 16.6 · 519% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #220/262
  • PHOTO Richmond Township Fi…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 49 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Richmond Township Fire Protection District (0.0 TCR gap)

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Chatham Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Chatham Fire Department averages 16.6 TCR (519% 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

Chatham Fire Department TCR series: 2017=35.3 · 2018=112.8 · 2019=60.5 · 2020=97.1 · 2021=12.4 · 2022=19 · 2023=9.3 · 2024=7 · BLS 3.2

Where Chatham Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Fire and rescue service establishments

Safer than 20% 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 #220 safest of 262 Fire and rescue service employers in Illinois.

Chatham Fire Department (38 employees, TCR 16.6) 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 Chatham Fire Department
Chatham Fire Department (38 employees, TCR 16.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Chatham Fire Department has fewer 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 7.0 0.0 3 0 0
2023 9.3 3.1 3 0 0
2022 19.0 15.2 5 0 0
2021 12.4 8.3 3 0 0
2020 97.1 26.1 21 5 0
2019 60.5 20.2 0 3 0
2018 112.8 22.6 5 0 0
2017 35.3 0.0 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Chatham

793 Fire and rescue service employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 13 employers in Chatham, 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 Richmond Township Fire Protection District 16.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Norwich: Fire Department 16.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Franklin Park Fire Department 16.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 077 LONG CREEK FPD 16.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Gibson City, IL 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Distribution Operating - Peoria 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE 629 - Distribution Operating - Peoria 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Freeport 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR County Market #224 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Technologies 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1387 VILLAGE OF CHATHAM 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reflections Memory Care - Chatham 34 FTE
NAT-TCR Batavia Nursing Care Center 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CWPWI, Inc 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Le Sueur 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Le Meridien Sheraton Charlotte 16.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Holton Family Health Clinic 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Buckeye Exterminating Inc. 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Runestone Electric Association 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE RDC 38 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.