Ambulance and fire service combined · Michigan

City of Royal Oak - Fire Departments

Royal Oak, MI · ~58 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Royal Oak - Fire Departments runs at 197% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade D.

City of Royal Oak - Fire Departments: 6.3 TCR = 197% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Royal Oak - Fire Departments safety composite

City of Royal Oak - Fire Departments scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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 Royal Oak - Fire Departments: 4.3 → 11.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.3× in 2024

City of Royal Oak - Fire Departments's TCR rose 6.6 from 4.3 in 2021 to 11.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.3× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Royal Oak, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 197% of ind

  • DART 8.2 DART
  • RANK #11/29
  • PHOTO Kill Devil Hills Fir…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kill Devil Hills Fire/EMS (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Royal Oak - Fire Departments in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Royal Oak - Fire Departments averages 6.3 TCR (197% of the Ambulance and fire service combined BLS benchmark).

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

City of Royal Oak - Fire Departments TCR series: 2021=4.3 · 2022=7.2 · 2023=2.7 · 2024=11 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Royal Oak - Fire Departments falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #11 safest of 29 Ambulance and fire service com employers in Michigan.

City of Royal Oak - Fire Departments (58 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 Royal Oak - Fire Departments
City of Royal Oak - Fire Departments (58 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

City of Royal Oak - Fire Departments has more employees than the Ambulance and fire service combined 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
2024 11.0 8.2 6 2 0
2023 2.7 2.7 2 0 0
2022 7.2 7.2 5 0 0
2021 4.3 4.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · MI · Royal Oak

793 Ambulance and fire service combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 51 employers in Royal Oak, 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 Kill Devil Hills Fire/EMS 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire & EMS 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jr. Lifeguard HQ 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Masterpiece Flower Company LLC - Merchandising (WI) 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE NTBS Services 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE River Rouge Power Plant 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cherryland Electric Cooperative 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2250-300 9,436 FTE
CITY-NEAR Royal Oak. 367 FTE
CITY-NEAR Flex-N- Gate Royal Oak, LLC. 353 FTE
CITY-NEAR 018-00743 268 FTE
NAT-TCR Fontana Water Company 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Handrail Design Inc 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Oren International 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CS Beef Packers 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Police Department 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Artis Senior Living of Branford 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Larder Baking Company 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hindley 58 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, 2021. 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.