Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) · Virginia

Chesapeake Fire Department

Name: Chesapeake Fire Department Workplace Safety Data
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Chesapeake, VA · ~436 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 9.6
Avg TCR: 3.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Chesapeake Fire Department runs at 300% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) workplace, earning a grade F.

Chesapeake Fire Department: 9.6 TCR = 300% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Chesapeake Fire Department safety composite

Chesapeake Fire Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 35%), 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).

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 9.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% of industry peers
DART rate: D 6.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

−5.1

2017→2018

Chesapeake Fire Department injury rate improved

Chesapeake Fire Department's TCR fell 5.1 from 12.2 in 2017 to 7.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 12.2 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.2 · 2018=7.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Chesapeake, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.6 · 300% of ind

DART 6.3 DART
RANK #19/29
PHOTO City of Wood River
BOOK 2y book
INJ 78 inj
SIZE ~436 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Wood River (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Eagan

9.7
Fire Station 2

9.7
Chicago Height

9.7
This site

9.6
City of Wood R

9.6

What this shows Chesapeake Fire Department averages 9.6 TCR (300% of the Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS benchmark).

Chesapeake Fire Department TCR series: 2017=12.2 · 2018=7 · BLS 3.2

Where Chesapeake Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 51% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 29 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Virginia.

Chesapeake Fire Department (436 employees, TCR 9.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Chesapeake Fire Department has more employees than the Fire departments (e.g., government, volu 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
2018	7.0	6.3	29	10	0
2017	12.2	9.9	49	27	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · VA · Chesapeake

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 434 employers in Chesapeake, VA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	City of Wood River	WOOD RIVER, IL	9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR	City of Eagan - Fire Department	EAGAN, MN	9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Fire Station 206	ALEXANDRIA, VA	9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Chicago Heights Fire Department	CHICAGO HEIGHTS, IL	9.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Sabra Dipping Company	S. CHESTERFIELD	436 FTE
STATE-SIZE	LSC Communications Strasburg Division	STRASBURG	436 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Prism Maritime, LLC	CHESAPEAKE	436 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Warren Memorial Hospital	FRONT ROYAL	436 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Amazon.com Services LLC - ORF2	Chesapeake	2,432 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Chesapeake Regional Medical Center	Chesapeake	2,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR	QVC Chesapeake, Inc.	Chesapeake	1,056 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Crossways	Chesapeake	931 FTE
NAT-TCR	Rusk Rehabilitation Center	Columbia, MO	9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Lowell C. Hagen Trucking, Inc	Whitewater, WI	9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Giant Eagle #3237	Erie, PA	9.6 TCR
NAT-TCR	Versa-Tech Technologies, LLC	Roseville, MI	9.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Bombardier Transportation - Pittsburgh - LCS	Pittsburgh, PA	436 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Wild Adventures	Valdosta, GA	436 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Community Consolidated School District 146	Tinley Park, IL	436 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Amzl : Dok1	Oklahoma City, OK	436 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: 2018, 2017. 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.