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

Elburn & Countryside Fire Protection District

Elburn, IL · ~73 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Elburn & Countryside Fire Protection District runs at 239% 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.

Elburn & Countryside Fire Protection District: 7.7 TCR = 239% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Elburn & Countryside Fire Protection District safety composite

Elburn & Countryside Fire Protection District scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 66% 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

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 7.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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

Elburn & Countryside Fire Protection District: 6.0 → 6.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 13.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.18× in 2024

Elburn & Countryside Fire Protection District's TCR rose 0.7 from 6.0 in 2017 to 6.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 13.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 239% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #91/262
  • PHOTO City of Casa Grande …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Casa Grande - Fire (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Illinois employers → · Look up another →

Elburn & Countryside Fire Protection District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Elburn & Countryside Fire Protection District averages 7.7 TCR (239% 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

Elburn & Countryside Fire Protection District TCR series: 2017=6 · 2022=13.3 · 2023=4.6 · 2024=6.7 · BLS 3.2

Where Elburn & Countryside Fire Protection District falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 63% 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 #91 safest of 262 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Illinois.

Elburn & Countryside Fire Protection District (73 employees, TCR 7.7) 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 Elburn & Countryside Fire Protection District
Elburn & Countryside Fire Protection District (73 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Elburn & Countryside Fire Protection District has more 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 6.7 1.3 5 0 0
2023 4.6 3.1 3 0 0
2022 13.3 3.3 8 0 0
2017 6.0 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Elburn

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 · 17 employers in Elburn, 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 Casa Grande - Fire 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bayport Fire Department 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Station 204 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Station 66 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE SouthEastern Illinois Electric Cooperative 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Gas Tech - Operations 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Civil Constructors Inc Moline Structures Divison 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Standard Sheet Metal Works, Inc 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Electric Conduit Construction Company 257 FTE
CITY-NEAR ICC Group Inc. 237 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-NAI-0032-0032-03347 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAI-0032-0032-03347 FAC-03347-ELBURN-IL 133 FTE
NAT-TCR 483013-Prospect | PA | HOL-500 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 2032 - Winter Park 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Greensboro- Water Resources 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Coke Northeast - Westborough 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sooner Geriatrics, LLC dba Wildewood Skilled Nursing and Therapy 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Erect A Line Inc 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Denver Glass Interiors 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pratt (Target Container), Inc. 73 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, 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.