Ambulance and fire service combined · Arizona

City of Tempe Fire Medical Rescue Department

Tempe, AZ · ~192 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Tempe Fire Medical Rescue Department runs at 160% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade D.

City of Tempe Fire Medical Rescue Department: 5.1 TCR = 160% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Tempe Fire Medical Rescue Department safety composite

City of Tempe Fire Medical Rescue Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 5.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
D 6.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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 Tempe Fire Medical Rescue Department: 3.8 → 6.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.17× in 2018

City of Tempe Fire Medical Rescue Department's TCR rose 2.6 from 3.8 in 2017 to 6.4 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Tempe, AZ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 160% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #9/20
  • PHOTO Fire Station I
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~192 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Station I (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Tempe Fire Medical Rescue Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Tempe Fire Medical Rescue Department averages 5.1 TCR (160% 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 Tempe Fire Medical Rescue Department TCR series: 2017=3.8 · 2018=6.4 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Tempe Fire Medical Rescue Department falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 20 Ambulance and fire service com employers in Arizona.

City of Tempe Fire Medical Rescue Department (192 employees, TCR 5.1) 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 Tempe Fire Medical Rescue Department
City of Tempe Fire Medical Rescue Department (192 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

City of Tempe Fire Medical Rescue Department 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
2018 6.4 6.0 15 0 0
2017 3.8 3.8 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · AZ · Tempe

793 Ambulance and fire service combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 569 employers in Tempe, AZ · 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 Station I 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Station #4 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Admin Offices - Kahului 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Middletown - Fire Service 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE W D Manor Mechanical Contractors Inc 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0936 - Frank Lloyd Wright Blvd 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6692 192 FTE
STATE-SIZE SODEXO AT N ARIZONA UNIV DUB 192 FTE
CITY-NEAR SALT RIVER PROJECT DISTRICT VALLEY 4,655 FTE
CITY-NEAR 202376 4,627 FTE
CITY-NEAR Valley Plants and Offices 4,518 FTE
CITY-NEAR IES Communications, LLC 3,432 FTE
NAT-TCR Transwaste Warner Robins 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 32 Cincinnati Terminal 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Shopko Store #32 (Monona, WI) 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Dean IL - Rockford 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lucas-Milhaupt 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Michigan Operations - Hemlock HIMS Plant 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sales - Smoky Mountains 192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bethany Woods Nursing & Rehab 192 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: 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.