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

Fire Department

Hickory, NC · ~17 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire Department runs at 525% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) workplace, earning a grade F.

Fire Department: 16.8 TCR = 525% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire Department safety composite

Fire Department scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

−11.5

2016→2020

Fire Department injury rate improved

Fire Department's TCR fell 11.5 from 27.5 in 2016 to 16.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2016 at 27.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=27.5 · 2019=6.9 · 2020=16.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 16.8 · 525% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #36/36
  • PHOTO Village of Lake Zuri…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Village of Lake Zurich - 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 16.8 TCR (525% 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 Department TCR series: 2016=27.5 · 2019=6.9 · 2020=16 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #36 safest of 36 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in North Carolina.

Fire Department (17 employees, TCR 16.8) 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 Department
Fire Department (17 employees, TCR 16.8) 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 Fire departments (e.g., government, volu 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
2020 16.0 0.0 2 0 0
2019 6.9 0.0 0 1 0
2016 27.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · NC · Hickory

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 · 240 employers in Hickory, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Village of Lake Zurich - Fire 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR FIRE #8 15 W. 1300 SO. 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Bakersfield Fire Department 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR NORTHERN REGION : HUU 16.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Black Gold Farms - NCE 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roanoke Tar Cotton, Inc. 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kinston Work Center 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE District Office 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR Catawba Valley Medical Center 2,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR Merchants Distributors LLC 1,480 FTE
CITY-NEAR Frye Regional Medical Center 1,363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hickory Manufacturing & Technology Center 1,006 FTE
NAT-TCR Bristol Farms Beverly West 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Village of Lake Zurich - Fire 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 6458-ZPIT 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-141-OUTLETS 16.8 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: 2020, 2019, 2016. 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.