Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) · Illinois

Erie Fire Department

Erie, IL · ~27 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Erie Fire Department runs at 338% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) workplace, earning a grade F.

Erie Fire Department: 10.8 TCR = 338% of Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Erie Fire Department safety composite

Erie Fire Department scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 10.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Erie Fire Department: 0.0 → 43.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 43.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Erie Fire Department's TCR rose 43.2 from 0.0 in 2021 to 43.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 338% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #153/262
  • PHOTO City of Council Bluf…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~27 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Council Bluffs Fire (0.0 TCR gap)

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Erie Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Erie Fire Department averages 10.8 TCR (338% of the Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Erie Fire Department TCR series: 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=43.2 · BLS 3.2

Where Erie Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Firefighting (except forest), establishments

Safer than 44% 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 #153 safest of 262 Firefighting (except forest), employers in Illinois.

Erie Fire Department (27 employees, TCR 10.8) 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 Erie Fire Department
Erie Fire Department (27 employees, TCR 10.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Erie Fire Department has fewer employees than the Firefighting (except forest), government 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 43.2 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Erie

793 Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 4 employers in Erie, 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 Council Bluffs Fire 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Green Valley Fire District 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mokena Fire Protection District 10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Channahon Fire Protection District 10.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pizzo Native Plant Nursery, LLC 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE C070 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stonington, IL-R&D 27 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bloomington 27 FTE
CITY-NEAR Deines-Nitz Solutions 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR Erie Ambulance Service 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Erie Foods International North plant 21 FTE
NAT-TCR Maine Course Hospitality Group - Home2 Suites 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Underwood Fruit & Warehouse 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Community Health Network South 10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Copper River Seafoods Cordova 10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Calloway's Store 125 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wave Division Holdings, LLC-Port Angeles 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE Olympia Log Yard 27 FTE
NAT-SIZE 8010558 Unibake 27 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.