Fire and rescue service · Indiana

Fire Department

Michigan City, IN · ~81 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.1
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire Department runs at 471% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire and rescue service workplace, earning a grade F.

Fire Department: 15.1 TCR = 471% of Fire and rescue service BLS 3.2 · 6y 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 24%), 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

32/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% 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: 7.5 → 12.0 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 30.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2021

Fire Department's TCR rose 4.5 from 7.5 in 2016 to 12.0 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 30.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Michigan City, IN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.1 · 471% of ind

  • DART 9.0 DART
  • RANK #10/12
  • PHOTO East Dundee and Coun…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 70 inj
  • SIZE ~81 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: East Dundee and Countryside Fire Protection District (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 15.1 TCR (471% of the Fire and rescue service BLS benchmark).

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

Fire Department TCR series: 2016=7.5 · 2017=6.9 · 2018=16.9 · 2019=16.5 · 2020=30.7 · 2021=12 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Fire and rescue service establishments

Safer than 26% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Indiana alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 12 Fire and rescue service employers in Indiana.

Fire Department (81 employees, TCR 15.1) 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 (81 employees, TCR 15.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Fire Department has more employees than the Fire and rescue service 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
2021 12.0 9.0 8 4 0
2020 30.7 13.9 24 7 0
2019 16.5 8.8 14 1 0
2018 16.9 7.9 13 2 0
2017 6.9 4.6 4 2 0
2016 7.5 4.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IN · Michigan City

793 Fire and rescue service employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,750 rated employers in Indiana with headcount on file · 111 employers in Michigan City, IN · 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 East Dundee and Countryside Fire Protection District 15.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Station 1 15.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ocean Safety Bureau 15.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kensington Fire Department 15.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Jenacre Egg Farm 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Newton County Egg Farm 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Indiana American Water-Northwest District Service Center 81 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alva Electric Inc 81 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franciscan Health Michigan City 938 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Chip Casino Hotel Spa 772 FTE
CITY-NEAR Michigan City High School 603 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hearthside Foods Solutions 602 FTE
NAT-TCR Fontana Wood Products of Oregon 15.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Edgewood Manor 15.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-558-Williams Sonoma 15.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 339170-Willingboro Po 15.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kane Logistics, Inc.-Sam's #6596 OH 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE AUDUBON 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6795-48281B01OC 81 FTE
NAT-SIZE Royal Oak Medical Center 81 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, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.