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

Fire Department

Hutchinson, MN · ~32 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire Department runs at 488% 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: 15.6 TCR = 488% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 8y 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 1%), 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

23/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 37.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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 → 37.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 37.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2.43× in 2024

Fire Department's TCR rose 37.9 from 0.0 in 2017 to 37.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Hutchinson, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.6 · 488% of ind

  • DART 37.9 DART
  • RANK #29/38
  • PHOTO County Fire Districts
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: County Fire Districts (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 15.6 TCR (488% 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: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=20.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=17.4 · 2022=18.9 · 2023=30.4 · 2024=37.9 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #29 safest of 38 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Minnesota.

Fire Department (32 employees, TCR 15.6) 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 (32 employees, TCR 15.6) 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
2024 37.9 37.9 1 1 0
2023 30.4 0.0 0 2 0
2022 18.9 0.0 1 0 0
2021 17.4 17.4 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 20.3 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · MN · Hutchinson

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 78 employers in Hutchinson, 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 County Fire Districts 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joliet Fire Department 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire and EMS Station 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire 15.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE MN Farm 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schwartz SE Office 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE High Bridge Combined Cycle 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Steele Waseca Coop Electric 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hutchinson 1,536 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0898 HUTCHINSON HOSPITAL 483 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1738 314 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heartland Agriculture 298 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0567 Yorktown 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR SATCO Products of California 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Maynard Steel Casting Co. 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR HW Cylar House 15.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Nordic - Charlotte Master Depot 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE OmniSource Transport, LLC - Northern Indiana Trucking 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE DooleyMack Constructors of South Carolina, LLC 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bt Hq 32 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, 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.