Ambulance and fire service combined · Illinois

Cortland Community Fire Protection District

Cortland, IL · ~30 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cortland Community Fire Protection District runs at 530% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade F.

Cortland Community Fire Protection District: 17.0 TCR = 530% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cortland Community Fire Protection District safety composite

Cortland Community Fire Protection District scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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%).

TCR Δ

−15.8

2020→2024

Cortland Community Fire Protection District injury rate improved

Cortland Community Fire Protection District's TCR fell 15.8 from 33.3 in 2020 to 17.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 33.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=33.3 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=17.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 17.0 · 530% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #228/262
  • PHOTO FD/EMS
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FD/EMS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cortland Community Fire Protection District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cortland Community Fire Protection District averages 17.0 TCR (530% 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

Cortland Community Fire Protection District TCR series: 2020=33.3 · 2023=0 · 2024=17.6 · BLS 3.2

Where Cortland Community Fire Protection District falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 18% 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 #228 safest of 262 Ambulance and fire service com employers in Illinois.

Cortland Community Fire Protection District (30 employees, TCR 17.0) 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 Cortland Community Fire Protection District
Cortland Community Fire Protection District (30 employees, TCR 17.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Cortland Community Fire Protection District has fewer 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
2024 17.6 0.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 33.3 11.1 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Cortland

793 Ambulance and fire service combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 7 employers in Cortland, 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 FD/EMS 17.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Homer Township Fire Protection District 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plainfield Fire Protection District 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 17.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Odell Fire 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Northern N - IL Common Ops 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chicago Loop Tech 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spoon River Electric Cooperative, Inc. 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Illinois Office 516 FTE
CITY-NEAR NPL Great Lakes LLC - Illinois 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baeza Rapid Delivery Service LLC 100 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dekalb County Recycling Systems 37 FTE
NAT-TCR ORP007 17.0 TCR
NAT-TCR COD029 17.0 TCR
NAT-TCR RMA Visalia Rd Yd 17.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Palihotel West Hollywood 17.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mohr Stamping Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Symmetrix Composite Tooling 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nms Pbu Boc Fds 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hero Logistics - LCD 30 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, 2020. 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.