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

Fire (5300)

Statesville, NC · ~93 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire (5300) runs at 117% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) workplace, earning a grade C.

Fire (5300): 3.8 TCR = 117% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire (5300) safety composite

Fire (5300) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 85% 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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

−2.5

2023→2024

Fire (5300) injury rate improved

Fire (5300)'s TCR fell 2.5 from 5.0 in 2023 to 2.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 5.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=5.0 · 2024=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Statesville, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 117% of ind

  • DART 1.7 DART
  • RANK #18/36
  • PHOTO HEADQUARTERS : Fire …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HEADQUARTERS : Fire Academy (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fire (5300) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fire (5300) averages 3.8 TCR (117% 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

Fire (5300) TCR series: 2023=5 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire (5300) falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 85% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 36 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in North Carolina.

Fire (5300) (93 employees, TCR 3.8) 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 Fire (5300)
Fire (5300) (93 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Fire (5300) 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 2.5 1.7 2 1 0
2023 5.0 3.3 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · NC · Statesville

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 181 employers in Statesville, NC · 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 HEADQUARTERS : Fire Academy 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire - Town of Black Mountain 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Girdwood Fire Department 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Westmont Fire Department 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Tri Pointe Homes Charlotte 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE UFP-Mid Atlantic LLC 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advanced Exterior Systems 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lightserve Corporation 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2807-0960 974 FTE
CITY-NEAR Doosan Bobcat 857 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0960 LOWE S NORTH CAROLINA RDC 836 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cheney Brothers Inc. - Statesville 830 FTE
NAT-TCR 13 Springfield, MO 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Memorial Hospital 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Upl Na 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Saws International, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kempsville Component Plant 535 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mt. View Farming, Inc. 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Preferred Properties, Inc. 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cowin Equipment Company of Birmingham 93 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. 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.