Ambulance and fire service combined · Washington

City of Yakima Fire Department

Yakima, WA · ~99 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
24.4
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Yakima Fire Department runs at 764% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Yakima Fire Department: 24.4 TCR = 764% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Yakima Fire Department safety composite

City of Yakima Fire Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 24.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

−6.5

2019→2022

City of Yakima Fire Department injury rate improved

City of Yakima Fire Department's TCR fell 6.5 from 27.7 in 2019 to 21.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 173.8 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=27.7 · 2020=173.8 · 2021=91.4 · 2022=21.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Yakima, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 24.4 · 764% of ind

  • DART 16.4 DART
  • RANK #27/28
  • PHOTO Fire Department
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 110 inj
  • SIZE ~99 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Yakima Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Yakima Fire Department averages 24.4 TCR (764% 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 Yakima Fire Department TCR series: 2019=27.7 · 2020=173.8 · 2021=91.4 · 2022=21.2 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Yakima Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 28 Ambulance and fire service com employers in Washington.

City of Yakima Fire Department (99 employees, TCR 24.4) 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 Yakima Fire Department
City of Yakima Fire Department (99 employees, TCR 24.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

City of Yakima Fire Department has more employees than the Ambulance and fire service combined 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
2022 21.2 16.4 11 11 0
2021 91.4 16.0 38 65 0
2020 173.8 10.4 32 168 0
2019 27.7 6.1 29 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · WA · Yakima

793 Ambulance and fire service combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 192 employers in Yakima, WA · 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 Department 24.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR SOUTHERN REGION : BEU 24.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Meriden Fire Department Engine #1 24.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Station 4 24.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sunnyside Dairy, LLC 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE SDC, LLC 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE DPR Construction - Seattle 99 FTE
STATE-SIZE Korsmo 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR Yakima Valley Hospital WA 2,748 FTE
CITY-NEAR Borton Fruit 1,473 FTE
CITY-NEAR Yakima County 997 FTE
CITY-NEAR Borton Orchards 918 FTE
NAT-TCR Sepulveda Basin Maint 24.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Les Schwab Tire Center-Burley 24.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sierra Vista Behavioral Health Center 24.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Pisgah Valley Retirement Center 24.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pamdw - Pittsburgh 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE PSSI - 0724 Lincoln Premium Poultry 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE PSSI - 0360 Pilgrim's Corp- Nacogdoches 99 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dymax Operations 99 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: 2022, 2021, 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.