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

City of Concord Fire Department

Concord, NC · ~269 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Concord Fire Department runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) workplace, earning a grade C.

City of Concord Fire Department: 3.1 TCR = 98% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Concord Fire Department safety composite

City of Concord Fire Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

C

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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

City of Concord Fire Department: 1.4 → 4.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.06× in 2024

City of Concord Fire Department's TCR rose 2.8 from 1.4 in 2022 to 4.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.06× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Concord, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 98% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #13/36
  • PHOTO Kahului Station
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~269 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kahului Station (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Concord Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Concord Fire Department averages 3.1 TCR (98% of the Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS benchmark).

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

City of Concord Fire Department TCR series: 2022=1.4 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=4.2 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Concord Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 36 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in North Carolina.

City of Concord Fire Department (269 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 Concord Fire Department
City of Concord Fire Department (269 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

City of Concord 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
2024 4.2 3.3 11 3 0
2023 3.8 1.7 13 0 0
2022 1.4 0.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · NC · Concord

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 338 employers in Concord, NC · 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 Kahului Station 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Hickory - Fire 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Babylon Fire Department 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steger Estates Fire Protection District 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pike Alabama Statewide Operations 269 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glen Raven Custom Fabrics - Burnsville Plant 269 FTE
STATE-SIZE Engineered Controls International, LLC (ECI) - Elon 269 FTE
STATE-SIZE CEM Corporation 269 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1114-Atrium Health Cabarrus (1114) 3,087 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0070-CHS NorthEast 2,949 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0070-Atrium Health Cabarrus 2,870 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CLT3 1,263 FTE
NAT-TCR Ohio Heating & Refrigeration 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Patriot Freight 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Woodfin Heating Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Zoo Group Sales 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE 5639 Salem Rdc 269 FTE
NAT-SIZE Automated Conveyor Systems, Inc. 269 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mission Foods 269 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlanta Cheesecake Co LLC 269 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.