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

City of Jacksonville Fire Department

Jacksonville, IL · ~28 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
20.7
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Jacksonville Fire Department runs at 648% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Jacksonville Fire Department: 20.7 TCR = 648% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Jacksonville Fire Department safety composite

City of Jacksonville Fire Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 9%), 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).

F

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 20.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

−124.4

2019→2020

City of Jacksonville Fire Department injury rate improved

City of Jacksonville Fire Department's TCR fell 124.4 from 145.1 in 2019 to 20.7 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 145.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=145.1 · 2020=20.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Jacksonville, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 20.7 · 648% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #256/262
  • PHOTO FIRE #1 211 SO. 500…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~28 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FIRE #1 211 SO. 500 E. (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Jacksonville Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Jacksonville Fire Department averages 20.7 TCR (648% 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 Jacksonville Fire Department TCR series: 2019=145.1 · 2020=20.7 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Jacksonville Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 9% 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 #256 safest of 262 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Illinois.

City of Jacksonville Fire Department (28 employees, TCR 20.7) 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 Jacksonville Fire Department
City of Jacksonville Fire Department (28 employees, TCR 20.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

City of Jacksonville Fire Department has fewer employees than the Fire departments (e.g., government, volu 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 20.7 5.2 7 1 0
2019 145.1 145.1 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Jacksonville

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 · 66 employers in Jacksonville, 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 FIRE #1 211 SO. 500 E. 20.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Station 9 20.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of New Haven - FIRE 826 Woodward Avenue 20.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saint Paul Fire Department 20.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Elite Growers, Inc. 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charles River Avian Roanoke 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corteva Agriscience Princeton IL Research-PRI2 28 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tracy Export, Inc. 28 FTE
CITY-NEAR Passavant Area Hospital 781 FTE
CITY-NEAR Jacksonville Memorial Hospital 666 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reynolds Consumer Products- Jacksonville West Plant 483 FTE
CITY-NEAR RCP Jax West Plant 450 FTE
NAT-TCR Ofa 10 20.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 487964-Sat-Laurel Heights Sta 20.7 TCR
NAT-TCR New Brighton Care Center 20.7 TCR
NAT-TCR American House Freedom Place - Rochester Hills 20.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 103829 - SR 99 - Alaskan Way Viaduct Demolition 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colorado Springs CO Yard 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arlington TX Windows 28 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manassas VA Yard 28 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.