Ambulance and fire service combined · Oregon

Fire Department

La Grande, OR · ~20 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.5
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire Department runs at 173% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade D.

Fire Department: 5.5 TCR = 173% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire Department safety composite

Fire Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 75% 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 5.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
C 3.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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: 4.8 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.57× in 2017

Fire Department's TCR rose 1.5 from 4.8 in 2016 to 6.3 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · La Grande, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.5 · 173% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #3/43
  • PHOTO MTFPD
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: MTFPD (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 5.5 TCR (173% of the Ambulance and fire service combined BLS benchmark).

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

Fire Department TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2017=6.3 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 75% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 43 Ambulance and fire service com employers in Oregon.

Fire Department (20 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 (20 employees, TCR 5.5) 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 Ambulance and fire service combined 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
2017 6.3 3.1 0 2 0
2016 4.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · OR · La Grande

793 Ambulance and fire service combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 39 employers in La Grande, OR · 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 MTFPD 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of St. Anthony Fire Department 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Station 5.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Station IV 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Yamhela Vineyard 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Roe Vineyard 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Battle Creek Vineyard 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liepold Farms 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR Grande Ronde Hospital 755 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastern Oregon University 692 FTE
CITY-NEAR La Grande School District 340 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northwood Manufacturing Inc 277 FTE
NAT-TCR Jacksonville (Flwrd) 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR R+L Carriers - KAN 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR SMF - Airport United Airlines Offices 5.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Spangler Graphics 5.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 105 Stonecrest Drive 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crown Lift Trucks Shreveport 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0787 - Cullman, Al 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 0751 - Ridgecrest, Ca 20 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: 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.