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

Fire Department

Hinsdale, IL · ~29 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire Department runs at 189% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) workplace, earning a grade D.

Fire Department: 6.0 TCR = 189% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire Department safety composite

Fire Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 72% 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 72% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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: 5.5 → 6.6 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 6.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.55× in 2021

Fire Department's TCR rose 1.1 from 5.5 in 2020 to 6.6 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 189% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #64/262
  • PHOTO Fire Department
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~29 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 6.0 TCR (189% 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: 2020=5.5 · 2021=6.6 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 72% 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 #64 safest of 262 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Illinois.

Fire Department (29 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 (29 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 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
2021 6.6 3.3 2 0 0
2020 5.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Hinsdale

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 32 employers in Hinsdale, 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 Fire Department 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Normal - Fire 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Greenwich Fire Department 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Station 14 6.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Grant Park 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Southern - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Western - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Eastern - IL Common Ops 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR UChicago Medicine AdventHealth Hinsdale 1,615 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adventist Hinsdale Hospital 1,553 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-ILARL04 1,319 FTE
CITY-NEAR RML SpecialtyHospital Hinsdale 518 FTE
NAT-TCR Commercial Cutting & Graphics, LLC 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR CSP 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Kansas City, Missouri 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Chiquita Port Huaneme 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Barker Steel - Canaan, New Hampshire 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Apache Camping Center, Portland 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Villagio Bradford Village 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE ITC Washington 29 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: 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.