Firefighting services (except forest and private) · North Carolina

City of Greensboro Fire Department

Greensboro, NC · ~605 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Greensboro Fire Department runs at 194% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Firefighting services (except forest and private) workplace, earning a grade D.

City of Greensboro Fire Department: 6.2 TCR = 194% of Firefighting services (except forest and private) BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Greensboro Fire Department safety composite

City of Greensboro Fire Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
C 3.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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 Greensboro Fire Department: 5.9 → 7.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 7.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2021

City of Greensboro Fire Department's TCR rose 1.3 from 5.9 in 2016 to 7.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Greensboro, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 194% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #25/36
  • PHOTO City of Goldsboro/Fi…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 174 inj
  • SIZE ~605 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Goldsboro/Fire Station 1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Greensboro Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Greensboro Fire Department averages 6.2 TCR (194% 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 Greensboro Fire Department TCR series: 2016=5.9 · 2017=5 · 2018=7.6 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=6.2 · 2021=7.2 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Greensboro Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Firefighting services (except establishments

Safer than 72% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #25 safest of 36 Firefighting services (except employers in North Carolina.

City of Greensboro Fire Department (605 employees, TCR 6.2) 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 Greensboro Fire Department
City of Greensboro Fire Department (605 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

City of Greensboro Fire Department has more employees than the Firefighting services (except forest and 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
2021 7.2 3.1 35 5 0
2020 6.2 4.4 31 3 0
2019 5.2 3.1 20 9 0
2018 7.6 4.4 32 11 0
2017 5.0 2.7 25 3 0
2016 5.9 3.2 31 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · NC · Greensboro

793 Firefighting services (except forest and private) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 920 employers in Greensboro, NC · 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 City of Goldsboro/Fire Station 1 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Great Hill Hose Fire Department 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jr. Lifeguard HQ 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kingman Fire Department 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE BioMerieux Durham 604 FTE
STATE-SIZE UNITED TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION 606 FTE
STATE-SIZE NC_Morrisville_101 Innovation Ave._0RDC1010 604 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Raleigh- Fire Department 606 FTE
CITY-NEAR MHCMH-Cone-Moses H Cone Memorial Hospital 3,806 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guilford County Local Government - All Employees 3,270 FTE
CITY-NEAR Guilford County Local Government 3,194 FTE
CITY-NEAR NCGRE - GREENSBORO HUB 2,447 FTE
NAT-TCR Walmart (WC USX WLA) 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Linen King, LLC (Conway) 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Florida Food Service, Inc 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR MPW - Location 6901 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pc - Cs S 605 FTE
NAT-SIZE 401 Nicollet Mall 605 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4186-DC3 605 FTE
NAT-SIZE 174031-Indianapolis Mpa 605 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.