Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) · North Carolina

Fire Department

New Bern, NC · ~67 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire Department runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) workplace, earning a grade A.

Fire Department: 1.6 TCR = 48% of Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire Department safety composite

Fire Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% 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).

B

82/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Fire Department: 0.0 → 1.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 3.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2018

Fire Department's TCR rose 1.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 1.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · New Bern, NC AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 48% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/36
  • PHOTO Fire Department
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~67 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 1.6 TCR (48% of the Firefighting (except forest), government and 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=0 · 2017=3.6 · 2018=1 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Firefighting (except forest), establishments

Safer than 97% 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 #1 safest of 36 Firefighting (except forest), employers in North Carolina.

Fire Department (67 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 (67 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 Firefighting (except forest), government 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
2018 1.0 0.0 1 0 0
2017 3.6 2.4 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · NC · New Bern

793 Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 114 employers in New Bern, NC · 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 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Daisy Mountain Fire District 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coal City Fire Protection District - Station #1 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Station 21 1.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cherryville Location 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mundy Maintenance and Services LLC Job #31827 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE David E. Looper & Company, Inc. 67 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6775_15699 67 FTE
CITY-NEAR CarolinaEast Medical Center, CEP Medicine and Rehabilitation 2,093 FTE
CITY-NEAR BSH Home Appliance Corp 1,266 FTE
CITY-NEAR BSH Home Appliances SNb 1,061 FTE
CITY-NEAR Moen Incorporated-New Bern Plant 794 FTE
NAT-TCR Van Horn Fond du Lac 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bemis Healthcare Packaging - Oshkosh 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR KCP&L - F&M Service Center 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Advanced Radiology, SC 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE East Texas Medical Center Emergency Medical Services (Wood County) 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manufacturing 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Story Building 67 FTE
NAT-SIZE Denver - 350 67 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.