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

Fire Department

Belle Plaine, MN · ~44 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.7
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire Department runs at 83% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) workplace, earning a grade C.

Fire Department: 2.7 TCR = 83% of Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire Department safety composite

Fire Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% 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).

B

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 2.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.7

2019→2024

Fire Department injury rate improved

Fire Department's TCR fell 3.7 from 7.6 in 2019 to 3.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=7.6 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Belle Plaine, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.7 · 83% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/38
  • PHOTO Fire Department
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Department (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 2.7 TCR (83% 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

Fire Department TCR series: 2019=7.6 · 2020=2.5 · 2021=0 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=0 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Firefighting (except forest), establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 38 Firefighting (except forest), employers in Minnesota.

Fire Department (44 employees, TCR 2.7) 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 (44 employees, TCR 2.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Fire Department has fewer employees than the Firefighting (except forest), government 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 3.8 0.0 1 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.1 0.0 0 1 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 2.5 0.0 0 1 0
2019 7.6 0.0 1 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · MN · Belle Plaine

793 Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 32 employers in Belle Plaine, MN · 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 Fire Department 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lake Egypt Fire Protection District 2.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 2.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Trenton - Fire Station #1 2.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE West River 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monticello Training Ctr-LL 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Treatment Facility 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE WasteWater Treatment Facility 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Lutheran Home: Belle Plaine 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAMBRIA FABSHOP MINNESOTA LLC 147 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2042 Coborn's Belle Plaine 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chard Excavating 117 FTE
NAT-TCR Ohio Eagle Distributing, LLC 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Swagelok Alfred 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 399 - Clinton 2.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 605 - Yakima 2.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Intelli-tech 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ft. Smith 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Williamsport PA FXFE-WPT 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Staunton VA FXFE-STN 44 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, 2020, 2019. 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.