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

Fairmont Fire Department

Name: Fairmont Fire Department Workplace Safety Data
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Fairmont, MN · ~29 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · September 26, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 37.3
Avg TCR: 3.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Fairmont Fire Department runs at 1167% 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.

Fairmont Fire Department: 37.3 TCR = 1167% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fairmont Fire Department safety composite

Fairmont Fire Department 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).

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 37.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers
DART rate: F 37.33 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

Fairmont Fire Department: 37.3 → 144.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 144.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Fairmont Fire Department's TCR rose 107.2 from 37.3 in 2022 to 144.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Fairmont, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 37.3 · 1167% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #38/38
PHOTO 267 WARRENVILLE FIRE…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 4 inj
SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 267 WARRENVILLE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT (7.4 TCR gap)

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37.3
267 WARRENVILL

29.9
City of Meride

29.8
Lifeguard HQ

29.5
Station 5-1 EM

28.6

What this shows Fairmont Fire Department averages 37.3 TCR (1167% of the Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS benchmark).

Fairmont Fire Department TCR series: 2022=37.3 · 2023=144.5 · BLS 3.2

Where Fairmont Fire Department 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.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #38 safest of 38 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Minnesota.

Fairmont Fire Department (29 employees, TCR 37.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Fairmont Fire Department 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	144.5	0.0	3	1	0
2022	37.3	37.3	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · MN · Fairmont

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 53 employers in Fairmont, MN · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	267 WARRENVILLE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT	WARRENVILLE, IL	29.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	City of Meriden Fire Camp Street	MERIDEN, CT	29.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Lifeguard HQ	HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA	29.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Station 5-1 EMS	PALMER, AK	28.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Fire Department	FAIRMONT	29 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Princeton Ambulance	PRINCETON	29 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CentraCare - Long Prairie Meadow Place	LONG PRAIRIE	29 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Park Gardens Senior Living	WAITE PARK	29 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Mayo Clinic Health System-Fairmont	Fairmont	476 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 3806	Fairmont	209 FTE
CITY-NEAR	3806	Fairmont	190 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Fairmont - Main Store	Fairmont	169 FTE
NAT-TCR	048 Juvenile Detention Center	Peoria, IL	30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Rockland Facility	Rockland, ME	30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Governor Juan F. Luis Hospital and Medical Center	Christiansted, VI	30.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Kemper Moving Systems	Huntsville, AL	30.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Cargill Animal Nutrition Albany, NY	Albany, NY	29 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Edgewood Spring Creek Overland	Boise, ID	29 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Harbor Health Services, Inc. EJCDC	South Dennis, MA	29 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Onedurr, Inc.	Lakewood, WA	29 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, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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