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

City of Effingham

Effingham, IL · ~65 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Effingham runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) workplace, earning a grade B.

City of Effingham: 2.5 TCR = 78% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Effingham safety composite

City of Effingham scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% 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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 2.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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

−7.5

2020→2022

City of Effingham injury rate improved

City of Effingham's TCR fell 7.5 from 7.5 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 7.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=7.5 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Effingham, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 78% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #15/262
  • PHOTO Unit 7 Fire Protecti…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Unit 7 Fire Protection District (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Effingham in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Effingham averages 2.5 TCR (78% 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 Effingham TCR series: 2020=7.5 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Effingham falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 262 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Illinois.

City of Effingham (65 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 Effingham
City of Effingham (65 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

City of Effingham 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
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 7.5 3.1 11 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Effingham

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 104 employers in Effingham, 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 Unit 7 Fire Protection District 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marquette Fire Department 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paia Station 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR NORTHERN REGION : CNR 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience McLeansboro Production 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bluff City Materials - Corporate Office 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vector Services 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yorkville Reporting Center 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Anthony's Hospital, Effingham 762 FTE
CITY-NEAR HSHS St. Anthony's Memorial Hospital 582 FTE
CITY-NEAR SAE-EFFINGHAM-3 HSHS ST ANTHONY S MEMORIAL HOSP 509 FTE
CITY-NEAR Patterson Technolgy Center 456 FTE
NAT-TCR ATN-ODFL 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 536 - Pembroke 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1060 - Killeen 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Pine Electric 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Coosa Valley Electric Cooperative 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bonanza 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coversafe Inc 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE RLH Fire Protection SF Location 65 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.