Fire and rescue service · Iowa

City of Council Bluffs Fire

Council Bluffs Ia, IA · ~110 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Council Bluffs Fire runs at 338% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire and rescue service workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Council Bluffs Fire: 10.8 TCR = 338% of Fire and rescue service BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Council Bluffs Fire safety composite

City of Council Bluffs Fire scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 10.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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 Council Bluffs Fire: 10.3 → 11.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.39× in 2023

City of Council Bluffs Fire's TCR rose 1.0 from 10.3 in 2022 to 11.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Council Bluffs Ia, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 338% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #9/18
  • PHOTO Erie Fire Department
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 31 inj
  • SIZE ~110 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Erie Fire Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Council Bluffs Fire in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Council Bluffs Fire averages 10.8 TCR (338% 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 Council Bluffs Fire TCR series: 2022=10.3 · 2023=11.3 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Council Bluffs Fire falls in its industry

793 Fire and rescue service establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 18 Fire and rescue service employers in Iowa.

City of Council Bluffs Fire (110 employees, TCR 10.8) 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 Council Bluffs Fire
City of Council Bluffs Fire (110 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

City of Council Bluffs 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 11.3 4.2 11 5 0
2022 10.3 3.3 20 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IA · Council Bluffs Ia

793 Fire and rescue service employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 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 Erie Fire Department 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Valley Fire District 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mokena Fire Protection District 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Channahon Fire Protection District 10.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sioux City Neal South 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE Winnebago County 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE MARSHALLTOWN, IA 110 FTE
STATE-SIZE HARSCO METALS 110 FTE
NAT-TCR Schmidbauer Lumber Co Inc 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR UFS 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Dayton Hauling Operations 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Allendale Plant - 05 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lorain County Health & Dentistry 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hatchery (Sallisaw) 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coxsackie Transport Inc. 110 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sheridan Publishing 110 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. 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.