Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) · Minnesota

City of Richfield - Fire Station 1

Richfield, MN · ~17 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.2
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Richfield - Fire Station 1 runs at 569% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Richfield - Fire Station 1: 18.2 TCR = 569% of Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Richfield - Fire Station 1 safety composite

City of Richfield - Fire Station 1 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% 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

−17.3

2020→2021

City of Richfield - Fire Station 1 injury rate improved

City of Richfield - Fire Station 1's TCR fell 17.3 from 26.9 in 2020 to 9.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 26.9 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.52× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=26.9 · 2021=9.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Richfield, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.2 · 569% of ind

  • DART 9.6 DART
  • RANK #32/38
  • PHOTO Coal City Fire Prote…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Coal City Fire Protection District (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Richfield - Fire Station 1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Richfield - Fire Station 1 averages 18.2 TCR (569% of the Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) BLS benchmark).

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

City of Richfield - Fire Station 1 TCR series: 2020=26.9 · 2021=9.6 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Richfield - Fire Station 1 falls in its industry

793 Firefighting (except forest), establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #32 safest of 38 Firefighting (except forest), employers in Minnesota.

City of Richfield - Fire Station 1 (17 employees, TCR 18.2) 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 Richfield - Fire Station 1
City of Richfield - Fire Station 1 (17 employees, TCR 18.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

City of Richfield - Fire Station 1 has fewer employees than the Firefighting (except forest), government 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
2021 9.6 9.6 2 0 0
2020 26.9 22.4 2 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · MN · Richfield

793 Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 80 employers in Richfield, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Coal City Fire Protection District 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sterling Fire Department 18.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 18.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Mt. Vernon IL FIRE DEPARTMENT 18.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Select Genetics MN Highway 12 003-0138-HT 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Olivia - East 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hastings, MN 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cloquet 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR 900010 6,214 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2300 - Richfield 549 FTE
CITY-NEAR Richfield Best Buy Office Bldg 504 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1828 RICHFIELD 7601 PENN AVE BLDG 501 FTE
NAT-TCR Coal City Fire Protection District 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Colonial Wholesale Beverage 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 118261-Spt-Midtown Sta 18.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Wohlgemuth Road 18.2 TCR

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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.