Ambulance and fire service combined · Illinois

Fire Department

Bedford Park, IL · ~60 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire Department runs at 374% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade F.

Fire Department: 12.0 TCR = 374% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire Department safety composite

Fire Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 11.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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: 0.0 → 18.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 21.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2023

Fire Department's TCR rose 18.7 from 0.0 in 2020 to 18.7 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 21.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Bedford Park, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.0 · 374% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #172/262
  • PHOTO CHARLOTTESVILLE-FIRE
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CHARLOTTESVILLE-FIRE (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fire Department averages 12.0 TCR (374% of the Ambulance and fire service combined BLS benchmark).

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

Fire Department TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=7.4 · 2022=21.8 · 2023=18.7 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 37% 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 #172 safest of 262 Ambulance and fire service com employers in Illinois.

Fire Department (60 employees, TCR 12.0) 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
Fire Department (60 employees, TCR 12.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Fire Department has more employees than the Ambulance and fire service combined 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 18.7 6.8 11 0 0
2022 21.8 9.1 12 0 0
2021 7.4 7.4 5 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Bedford Park

793 Ambulance and fire service combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 140 employers in Bedford Park, 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 CHARLOTTESVILLE-FIRE 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CITY OF ST CLAIR SHORES FIRE DEPARTMENT 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Novato Fire Protection District 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 11.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE DAS Grand Ridge, IL 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE VDF Agriculture Department 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE AEP Energy - Chicago 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois American Water (Champaign) 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR MDWPW9669 MDW - OPS 1,757 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILBED - BEDFORD PARK 1,041 FTE
CITY-NEAR BEDFORD PARK (ILBED) 835 FTE
CITY-NEAR 161546-SOUTH SUBURBAN IL P&DC 834 FTE
NAT-TCR Parsons House Cypress 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Roseville #031 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR American Red Cross - 3525-3527 Atlanta Hwy 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Gibson & Associates 12.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Courtyard by Marriott Hotel 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Merchants Export, LLC 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cecelia Packing Corp 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Auditor-Controller 60 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, 2021, 2020. 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.