Firefighting services (except forest and private) · Kentucky

City of Elizabethtown Fire Department

Elizabethtown, KY · ~62 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Elizabethtown Fire Department runs at 550% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Firefighting services (except forest and private) workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Elizabethtown Fire Department: 17.6 TCR = 550% of Firefighting services (except forest and private) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Elizabethtown Fire Department safety composite

City of Elizabethtown Fire Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

−26.3

2019→2020

City of Elizabethtown Fire Department injury rate improved

City of Elizabethtown Fire Department's TCR fell 26.3 from 30.7 in 2019 to 4.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 30.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=30.7 · 2020=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Elizabethtown, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.6 · 550% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #6/6
  • PHOTO La Grange Park Fire …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: La Grange Park Fire Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Elizabethtown Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Elizabethtown Fire Department averages 17.6 TCR (550% of the Firefighting services (except forest and private) BLS benchmark).

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

City of Elizabethtown Fire Department TCR series: 2019=30.7 · 2020=4.5 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Elizabethtown Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Firefighting services (except establishments

Safer than 17% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Firefighting services (except employers in Kentucky.

City of Elizabethtown Fire Department (62 employees, TCR 17.6) 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 Elizabethtown Fire Department
City of Elizabethtown Fire Department (62 employees, TCR 17.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

City of Elizabethtown Fire Department has more employees than the Firefighting services (except forest and 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
2020 4.5 4.5 3 1 0
2019 30.7 30.7 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · KY · Elizabethtown

793 Firefighting services (except forest and private) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 130 employers in Elizabethtown, KY · 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 La Grange Park Fire Department 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town - North Madison Fire Company 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Mattoon 17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Anaheim, Fire Station #8 17.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pineville 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Terra Apartment Homes 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Phillips Brothers Construction 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berkel Piling Louisville 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hardin Memorial Hospital 2,311 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Hardin 2,058 FTE
CITY-NEAR Metalsa 1,807 FTE
CITY-NEAR Etown 956 FTE
NAT-TCR LMMM San Antonio#2, LTD 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cameron Hall of Ellijay 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZSRO 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0025-0025-02150 17.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Shawmut Advertising Inc 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE SFS Dallas-282DAL 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Board of Retirement 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE ECC:EC03E - EC03E- Fayetteville, AR-0300 62 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: 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.