MUNICPAL FIRE SERVICES · Illinois

Fire Department 23

Wheeling, IL · ~19 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.4
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire Department 23 runs at 356% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical MUNICPAL FIRE SERVICES workplace, earning a grade F.

Fire Department 23: 11.4 TCR = 356% of MUNICPAL FIRE SERVICES BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire Department 23 safety composite

Fire Department 23 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 17%), 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).

D

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 11.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

Fire Department 23: 11.4 → 63.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 63.5 TCR · DART/TCR 5.57× in 2022

Fire Department 23's TCR rose 52.1 from 11.4 in 2021 to 63.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 5.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 11.4 · 356% of ind

  • DART 63.5 DART
  • RANK #164/262
  • PHOTO Fire Department
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fire Department 23 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fire Department 23 averages 11.4 TCR (356% of the MUNICPAL FIRE SERVICES BLS benchmark).

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

Fire Department 23 TCR series: 2021=11.4 · 2022=63.5 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire Department 23 falls in its industry

793 MUNICPAL FIRE SERVICES establishments

Safer than 41% 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 #164 safest of 262 MUNICPAL FIRE SERVICES employers in Illinois.

Fire Department 23 (19 employees, TCR 11.4) 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 Department 23
Fire Department 23 (19 employees, TCR 11.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Fire Department 23 has fewer employees than the MUNICPAL FIRE SERVICES 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
2022 63.5 63.5 3 15 0
2021 11.4 11.4 0 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Wheeling

793 MUNICPAL FIRE SERVICES employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 136 employers in Wheeling, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Bend Fire 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Elmhurst - Fire Department 11.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 108 Pleasantview Fire Protection District 11.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gingerich Farms Partnerships 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tolono Research 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE PharmaCann Hillcrest 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Morgan Acres, LLC. 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR IL-01 4,581 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wheeling School District 21 967 FTE
CITY-NEAR Main Office - 01 800 FTE
CITY-NEAR Response Team 1 728 FTE
NAT-TCR 6962-ABS-0029-0028-00208 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-ABS-0029-0028-00387 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02056 11.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 5472-NAI-0033-0033-01432 11.4 TCR

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: 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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