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

Downs Community Fire Protection District

Downs, IL · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
40.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Downs Community Fire Protection District runs at 1250% 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.

Downs Community Fire Protection District: 40.0 TCR = 1250% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Downs Community Fire Protection District safety composite

Downs Community Fire Protection District scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 40 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

DART rate
F 40 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Downs Community Fire Protection District: 40.0 → 400.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 400.0 TCR · DART/TCR 10× in 2023

Downs Community Fire Protection District's TCR rose 360.0 from 40.0 in 2021 to 400.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 10× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 40.0 · 1250% of ind

  • DART 400.0 DART
  • RANK #262/262
  • PHOTO 267 WARRENVILLE FIRE…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 267 WARRENVILLE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT (10.1 TCR gap)

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Downs Community Fire Protection District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Downs Community Fire Protection District averages 40.0 TCR (1250% 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

Downs Community Fire Protection District TCR series: 2021=40 · 2023=400 · BLS 3.2

Where Downs Community Fire Protection District falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 0% 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 #262 safest of 262 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Illinois.

Downs Community Fire Protection District (20 employees, TCR 40.0) 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 01020304050 Average employees Total Case Rate Downs Community Fire Protection District
Downs Community Fire Protection District (20 employees, TCR 40.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Downs Community 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
2023 400.0 400.0 1 0 0
2021 40.0 40.0 2 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Downs

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 · 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 267 WARRENVILLE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT 29.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Meriden Fire Camp Street 29.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lifeguard HQ 29.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Station 5-1 EMS 28.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE East Ridge 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bay Creek 4 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Deer Run 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grand View Farms, LLC. 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Village of Downs 21 FTE
NAT-TCR Rockland Facility 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Governor Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kemper Moving Systems 30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR EWR - Ground Ops 30.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Box Canyon 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fleet 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sheffield 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE CCTCA Ontario 20 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: 2023, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.