Police and fire departments, combined · Michigan

City of Escanaba - Public Safety

Escanaba, MI · ~39 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Escanaba - Public Safety runs at 130% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Police and fire departments, combined workplace, earning a grade D.

City of Escanaba - Public Safety: 4.2 TCR = 130% of Police and fire departments, combined BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Escanaba - Public Safety safety composite

City of Escanaba - Public Safety scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 4.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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 Escanaba - Public Safety held a steady TCR band

City of Escanaba - Public Safety's TCR held near 0.1 from 2.4 in 2022 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 7.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=2.4 · 2023=7.5 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Escanaba, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 130% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #3/33
  • PHOTO Police
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Police (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Escanaba - Public Safety in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Escanaba - Public Safety averages 4.2 TCR (130% of the Police and fire departments, combined BLS benchmark).

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

City of Escanaba - Public Safety TCR series: 2022=2.4 · 2023=7.5 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Escanaba - Public Safety falls in its industry

716 Police and fire departments, c establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 33 Police and fire departments, c employers in Michigan.

City of Escanaba - Public Safety (39 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate City of Escanaba - Public Safety
City of Escanaba - Public Safety (39 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

City of Escanaba - Public Safety has fewer employees than the Police and fire departments, combined median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2023 7.5 0.0 3 0 0
2022 2.4 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · MI · Escanaba

716 Police and fire departments, combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 50 employers in Escanaba, MI · 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 Police 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Washington - Police 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Office of Field Operations - New Orleans 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Office of Field Operations - San Juan 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mount Hope Dairy 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE CFI - Livonia 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dart Facilities 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cripps Fontaine Excavating, INC 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Verso Escanaba Mill 879 FTE
CITY-NEAR Billerud Escanaba Mill 866 FTE
CITY-NEAR OSF St Francis Hospital 487 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Francis Hospital and Medical Group 436 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Kerkhoven 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Builders Installed Products Vermont 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Location 27010 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Colormasters - plant 1 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Heartland Goodwill Enterprises 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northern California Power Agency 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE McClure-Pittsburg 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlanta Winsupply Co. 39 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.