Fire and rescue service · Oregon

City of Bend Fire

Bend, OR · ~137 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.4
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Bend Fire runs at 357% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire and rescue service workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Bend Fire: 11.4 TCR = 357% of Fire and rescue service BLS 3.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Bend Fire safety composite

City of Bend Fire 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).

D

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 11.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
D 6.35 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

−3.3

2016→2023

City of Bend Fire injury rate improved

City of Bend Fire's TCR fell 3.3 from 11.4 in 2016 to 8.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 15.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.4 · 2017=10.0 · 2018=13.1 · 2019=10.2 · 2020=11.2 · 2021=11.9 · 2022=15.6 · 2023=8.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Bend, OR ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.4 · 357% of ind

  • DART 6.3 DART
  • RANK #23/43
  • PHOTO Fire Department
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 112 inj
  • SIZE ~137 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Bend Fire in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Bend Fire averages 11.4 TCR (357% 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

City of Bend Fire TCR series: 2016=11.4 · 2017=10 · 2018=13.1 · 2019=10.2 · 2020=11.2 · 2021=11.9 · 2022=15.6 · 2023=8.1 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Bend Fire falls in its industry

793 Fire and rescue service establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 43 Fire and rescue service employers in Oregon.

City of Bend Fire (137 employees, TCR 11.4) 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 City of Bend Fire
City of Bend Fire (137 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

City of Bend 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
2023 8.1 6.3 12 2 0
2022 15.6 8.2 19 2 0
2021 11.9 6.0 13 7 0
2020 11.2 6.5 14 5 0
2019 10.2 5.1 14 4 0
2018 13.1 5.3 14 6 0
2017 10.0 8.0 12 3 0
2016 11.4 5.4 14 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · OR · Bend

793 Fire and rescue service employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 254 employers in Bend, OR · 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 Department 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Elmhurst - Fire Department 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 23 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Station #8 11.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Woodburn Nursery & Azaleas, Inc. 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Region 5-Pendleton 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE willamette construction services inc. 137 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turtle Island Foods 137 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Charles Health System Bend 3,592 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mt. Bachelor 569 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Charles Health System Redmond 505 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lonza Bend Inc, 438 FTE
NAT-TCR Guerdon, LLC 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0234 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR HG845 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 4795-EA-BNA-NASHVILLE-BNA-TRML 11.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE J & M Plating Inc 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100822 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100679 137 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100560 137 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.