Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) · Illinois

City of Des Plaines - Fire Department

Des Plaines, IL · ~101 workers · 6 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 Des Plaines - Fire Department runs at 338% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Des Plaines - Fire Department: 10.8 TCR = 338% of Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Des Plaines - Fire Department safety composite

City of Des Plaines - Fire Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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).

F

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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%).

City of Des Plaines - Fire Department held a steady TCR band

City of Des Plaines - Fire Department's TCR held near 0.2 from 8.9 in 2019 to 9.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 23.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=8.9 · 2020=23.4 · 2021=7.0 · 2022=8.3 · 2023=8.3 · 2024=9.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921110 · Des Plaines, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 338% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #84/104
  • PHOTO Administration
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 51 inj
  • SIZE ~101 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Administration (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Des Plaines - Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Des Plaines - Fire Department averages 10.8 TCR (338% of the Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) BLS benchmark).

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

City of Des Plaines - Fire Department TCR series: 2019=8.9 · 2020=23.4 · 2021=7 · 2022=8.3 · 2023=8.3 · 2024=9.2 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Des Plaines - Fire Department falls in its industry

1,010 Executive offices, federal, st establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #84 safest of 104 Executive offices, federal, st employers in Illinois.

City of Des Plaines - Fire Department (101 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Des Plaines - Fire Department
City of Des Plaines - Fire Department (101 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8

City of Des Plaines - Fire Department has fewer employees than the Executive offices, federal, state, and l median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 9.2 8.3 10 0 0
2023 8.3 8.3 9 0 0
2022 8.3 7.3 9 0 0
2021 7.0 7.0 6 1 0
2020 23.4 23.4 8 17 0
2019 8.9 5.4 9 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921110 · IL · Des Plaines

1,010 Executive offices, federal, state, and local (e.g., governor, mayor, president) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 174 employers in Des Plaines, 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 Administration 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Hinckley 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Voluntown 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR DEPARTAMENTO DE SERVICIOS AL CIUDADANO - ADMINISTRACION 14216 00 10.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Southern - IL Gas Ops 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE DGIL 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brandt Construction Co. 101 FTE
STATE-SIZE MS - Mossville, IL - 1MOI2 (CATERPILLAR COE) 101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Illinois Bone & Joint Institute 2,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rivers Casino 1,705 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Plaines Campus 1,245 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Plaines (IL36) 1,200 FTE
NAT-TCR Covered Wagon Trailers 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand Valley Gardens 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Canyon Kitchen & Bath, Inc. 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR LB Pork Inc 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Elms Retirement Residence Inc. 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Planar Systems - Evergreen Location 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kre-Bsl Husky Haverhill Operation LLC 101 FTE
NAT-SIZE Utilities and Environemtal Services 101 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.