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

Columbia Fire Protection District

Columbia, IL · ~42 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Columbia Fire Protection District runs at 244% 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.

Columbia Fire Protection District: 7.8 TCR = 244% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Columbia Fire Protection District safety composite

Columbia Fire Protection District scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 7.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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

Columbia Fire Protection District: 0.0 → 20.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 20.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Columbia Fire Protection District's TCR rose 20.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 20.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 244% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #95/262
  • PHOTO City of Manassas Fir…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Manassas Fire and Rescue (0.0 TCR gap)

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Columbia Fire Protection District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Columbia Fire Protection District averages 7.8 TCR (244% 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

Columbia Fire Protection District TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=19.1 · 2024=20 · BLS 3.2

Where Columbia Fire Protection District falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 62% 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 #95 safest of 262 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Illinois.

Columbia Fire Protection District (42 employees, TCR 7.8) 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 Columbia Fire Protection District
Columbia Fire Protection District (42 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Columbia Fire Protection District has fewer employees than the Fire departments (e.g., government, volu 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 20.0 0.0 1 0 0
2023 19.1 19.1 0 1 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Columbia

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 · 18 employers in Columbia, 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 City of Manassas Fire and Rescue 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eugene/Springfield - Fire Department 1 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Braidwood Fire Protection District 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE DAS Pontiac, IL 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waterman, IL-R&D 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springfield IL 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Egyptian Electric Cooperative 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Luhr Crosby LLC. 210 FTE
CITY-NEAR Luhr Bros., Inc. 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Crown Linen Service, Inc - MC2 134 FTE
CITY-NEAR Budnick Headquarters 108 FTE
NAT-TCR Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR TXD092 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Franz Family Bakeries Olympia 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Sixt Rent A Car - Philadelphia International Airport 44204 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Complete Filter Media, LLC 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE CMS Home Care Nueva Vida De La Salud 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Michigan Natural Storage 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bergelectric Corp. AL 42 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, 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.