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

Darien Woodridge Fire Protection District

Darien, IL · ~41 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.4
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darien Woodridge Fire Protection District runs at 418% 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.

Darien Woodridge Fire Protection District: 13.4 TCR = 418% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darien Woodridge Fire Protection District safety composite

Darien Woodridge Fire Protection District scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.8 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% 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

−16.0

2022→2024

Darien Woodridge Fire Protection District injury rate improved

Darien Woodridge Fire Protection District's TCR fell 16.0 from 21.4 in 2022 to 5.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 21.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=21.4 · 2024=5.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 13.4 · 418% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #187/262
  • PHOTO Fire Station 2
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~41 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Station 2 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Darien Woodridge Fire Protection District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darien Woodridge Fire Protection District averages 13.4 TCR (418% 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

Darien Woodridge Fire Protection District TCR series: 2022=21.4 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Darien Woodridge Fire Protection District falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 32% 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 #187 safest of 262 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Illinois.

Darien Woodridge Fire Protection District (41 employees, TCR 13.4) 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 Darien Woodridge Fire Protection District
Darien Woodridge Fire Protection District (41 employees, TCR 13.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Darien Woodridge Fire Protection District has fewer employees than the Fire departments (e.g., government, volu 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 5.4 1.8 2 1 0
2022 21.4 11.7 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Darien

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 · 20 employers in Darien, 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 Fire Station 2 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Glenside Fire Protection Distict 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Station #82 & Fire Training Center 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 627 MANHATTAN FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT 13.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. - Champaign Research - CMI1 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1987-Jerseyville, IL 41 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mt. Carmel Public Utility Co. 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2215 335 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2215 331 FTE
CITY-NEAR GP Transco Darien Office 292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Darien School District 61 200 FTE
NAT-TCR Whitley Manufacturing Co., Inc. 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hampton Inn Anaheim 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Theater of the Sea 13.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Harbor House Ministries 13.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Burgess and Dudley, Inc 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rex Howard's Landscaping & Excavating, LLC. 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gw Snf LLC 41 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cochran SNF Operator, LLC 41 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.