Ambulance and fire service combined · Illinois

Dale Township Fire Department

Bloomington, IL · ~21 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
20.5
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dale Township Fire Department runs at 642% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade F.

Dale Township Fire Department: 20.5 TCR = 642% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dale Township Fire Department safety composite

Dale Township Fire Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 20.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 41.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

Dale Township Fire Department: 0.0 → 41.1 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 41.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2× in 2018

Dale Township Fire Department's TCR rose 41.1 from 0.0 in 2017 to 41.1 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 20.5 · 642% of ind

  • DART 41.1 DART
  • RANK #255/262
  • PHOTO City of New Haven - …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of New Haven - FIRE 412 Lombard Street (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dale Township Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dale Township Fire Department averages 20.5 TCR (642% 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

Dale Township Fire Department TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=41.1 · BLS 3.2

Where Dale Township Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 9% 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 #255 safest of 262 Ambulance and fire service com employers in Illinois.

Dale Township Fire Department (21 employees, TCR 20.5) 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 Dale Township Fire Department
Dale Township Fire Department (21 employees, TCR 20.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Dale Township Fire Department 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
2018 41.1 41.1 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Bloomington

793 Ambulance and fire service combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 182 employers in Bloomington, 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 New Haven - FIRE 412 Lombard Street 20.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of New Haven - FIRE 125 Goffee Street 20.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of New Haven - FIRE 826 Woodward Avenue 20.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SOUTHERN REGION : SLU 20.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Frank W. Lewis & Son Seed FArms, Inc 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE RAVENS LIVESTOCK & FARMS INC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bushnell 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE 21st Century Sow Farm 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Joseph Medical Center 989 FTE
CITY-NEAR OSF Saint Joseph Medical Center 919 FTE
CITY-NEAR The City of Bloomington 901 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bloomington Public Schools, District 87 855 FTE
NAT-TCR WCA San Jose 20.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 173590-Hmd-Hessville Sta 20.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Canap - Napa Center 20.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Citizens Logistics LLC 20.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Great Lakes Cincinnati Gest St 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Great Lakes Cleveland 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE S07094 - 1370 S Valley Hwy Office 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kingsville CDC 21 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.