General services departments, government · Minnesota

Fire Department

Chaska, MN · ~113 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.7
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire Department runs at 552% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General services departments, government workplace, earning a grade F.

Fire Department: 17.7 TCR = 552% of General services departments, government BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire Department safety composite

Fire Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

F

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 35.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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: 1.9 → 45.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 54.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.99× in 2022

Fire Department's TCR rose 43.3 from 1.9 in 2017 to 45.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 54.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.99× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Chaska, MN ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 17.7 · 552% of ind

  • DART 35.1 DART
  • RANK #266/275
  • PHOTO Yuba County Public W…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~113 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Yuba County Public Works Garage (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 17.7 TCR (552% of the General services departments, government BLS benchmark).

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

Fire Department TCR series: 2017=1.9 · 2018=28.2 · 2019=7 · 2020=6.1 · 2021=54.2 · 2022=45.2 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire Department falls in its industry

1,496 General services departments, establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #266 safest of 275 General services departments, employers in Minnesota.

Fire Department (113 employees, TCR 17.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Fire Department
Fire Department (113 employees, TCR 17.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Fire Department has more employees than the General services departments, government median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 45.2 35.1 2 7 0
2021 54.2 42.1 3 6 0
2020 6.1 0.0 0 1 0
2019 7.0 0.0 1 0 0
2018 28.2 14.1 3 1 0
2017 1.9 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · MN · Chaska

1,496 General services departments, government employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 87 employers in Chaska, 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 Yuba County Public Works Garage 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Newtown 17.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR City Of Sacramento-Fleet Management Roll-Up (150032) 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Public Works 17.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Boldt Company - Rochester, MN 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE MPM - Mankato 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southern Minnesota Construction 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE MN Office 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Diagnostics : Beckman Coulter - Chaska 917 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lake Region Medical 830 FTE
CITY-NEAR Entegris - Chaska 731 FTE
CITY-NEAR Administration 596 FTE
NAT-TCR 188325-Sioux City Po 17.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hidden Valley Animal Adventure 17.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Carter Caves State Resort Park 17.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Spencer 17.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE J&M Steel Solutions 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Avista Coeur d'Alene 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE JTL Group Inc. DBA Knife River-Belgrade 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1243 - Coconut Creek 113 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.