Ambulance and fire service combined · Illinois

City of Granite City Fire Department

Name: City of Granite City Fire Department Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Granite City, IL · ~43 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 23.2
Avg TCR: 3.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

City of Granite City Fire Department runs at 724% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Granite City Fire Department: 23.2 TCR = 724% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Granite City Fire Department safety composite

City of Granite City Fire Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 5%), 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).

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 23.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers
DART rate: D 6.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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 Granite City Fire Department: 16.7 → 29.6 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 29.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.27× in 2023

City of Granite City Fire Department's TCR rose 12.9 from 16.7 in 2022 to 29.6 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Granite City, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 23.2 · 724% of ind

DART 6.3 DART
RANK #260/262
PHOTO Fire Station
BOOK 2y book
INJ 20 inj
SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Station (0.0 TCR gap)

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Eugene/Springf

23.3
Tulare County

23.3
This site

23.2
Fire Station

23.1
Excelsior Fire

23.1

What this shows City of Granite City Fire Department averages 23.2 TCR (724% of the Ambulance and fire service combined BLS benchmark).

City of Granite City Fire Department TCR series: 2022=16.7 · 2023=29.6 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Granite City Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #260 safest of 262 Ambulance and fire service com employers in Illinois.

City of Granite City Fire Department (43 employees, TCR 23.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

City of Granite City Fire Department has fewer employees than the Ambulance and fire service combined 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	29.6	6.3	13	1	0
2022	16.7	4.8	7	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Granite City

793 Ambulance and fire service combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 80 employers in Granite City, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Fire Station	GREENUP, IL	23.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Excelsior Fire District	SHOREWOOD, MN	23.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Eugene/Springfield Administration	EUGENE, OR	23.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Tulare County Fire	VISALIA, CA	23.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Illinois	SAUGET	43 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Stratum Reservoir, LLC - Champaign	CHAMPAIGN	43 FTE
STATE-SIZE	AMEREN ILLINOIS - East St. Louis	EAST ST. LOUIS	43 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Manlove Storage Field	FISHER	43 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Granite City Works	Granite City	976 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Amsted Rail Company Inc	Granite City	797 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Granite City Plant	Granite City	563 FTE
CITY-NEAR	icon Mechanical LLC	Granite City	448 FTE
NAT-TCR	Country Meadows of Lancaster	Lancaster, PA	23.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Town of Plainfield	Plainfield, IN	23.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Gogebic County Road Commission	Bessemer, MI	23.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Trader Joe's 0203 Oakland	Oakland, CA	23.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Parsipanny	Parsipanny, NJ	43 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Quikrete - Sac	Sacramento, CA	43 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Quikrete - Msy	Harahan, LA	43 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Walton	Walton, KY	43 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.