Ambulance and fire service combined · Illinois

Fire Department

Park Ridge, IL · ~51 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire Department runs at 573% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade F.

Fire Department: 18.3 TCR = 573% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 5y 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 7%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 19.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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%).

TCR Δ

−293.9

2020→2024

Fire Department injury rate improved

Fire Department's TCR fell 293.9 from 324.2 in 2020 to 30.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 324.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=324.2 · 2021=14.8 · 2022=16.3 · 2023=11.9 · 2024=30.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Park Ridge, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.3 · 573% of ind

  • DART 19.6 DART
  • RANK #238/262
  • PHOTO City of Mt. Vernon I…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 55 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Mt. Vernon IL 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 18.3 TCR (573% 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: 2020=324.2 · 2021=14.8 · 2022=16.3 · 2023=11.9 · 2024=30.3 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #238 safest of 262 Ambulance and fire service com employers in Illinois.

Fire Department (51 employees, TCR 18.3) 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 (51 employees, TCR 18.3) 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 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 30.3 19.6 17 0 0
2023 11.9 5.3 9 0 0
2022 16.3 9.5 12 0 0
2021 14.8 5.5 8 0 0
2020 324.2 226.9 9 11 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Park Ridge

793 Ambulance and fire service combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 35 employers in Park Ridge, 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 City of Mt. Vernon IL FIRE DEPARTMENT 18.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Richfield - Fire Station 1 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Coal City Fire Protection District 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Elgin & Countryside Fire Protection District 18.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Larch Farm 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE CDG 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prince Minerals LLC - QUI 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Quincy 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Lutheran General Hospital 4,306 FTE
CITY-NEAR Park Ridge Park District 421 FTE
CITY-NEAR TheKey - IL, Park Ridge (1300 W Higgins Road) 322 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spark Therapy, LLC 309 FTE
NAT-TCR Devonshire Care Center LLC 18.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ihop 1441 18.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of York 18.3 TCR
NAT-TCR American Standard, Mfg. 18.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chardon Custom Polymers LLC 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trinity Electrical Services 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bloomington Lock and Safe Co., Inc 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Blackmon Mooring of Oklahoma City LLC 51 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.