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

Fire Department - Sta. 1- 6

Burlington, NC · ~103 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire Department - Sta. 1- 6 runs at 76% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) workplace, earning a grade B.

Fire Department - Sta. 1- 6: 2.4 TCR = 76% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire Department - Sta. 1- 6 safety composite

Fire Department - Sta. 1- 6 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 2.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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 - Sta. 1- 6: 2.0 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.6× in 2017

Fire Department - Sta. 1- 6's TCR rose 0.9 from 2.0 in 2016 to 2.9 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.6× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Burlington, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 76% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #9/36
  • PHOTO City of Madisonville…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~103 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Madisonville - Fire (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fire Department - Sta. 1- 6 in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Fire Department - Sta. 1- 6 averages 2.4 TCR (76% 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 - Sta. 1- 6 TCR series: 2016=2 · 2017=2.9 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire Department - Sta. 1- 6 falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 93% 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 #9 safest of 36 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in North Carolina.

Fire Department - Sta. 1- 6 (103 employees, TCR 2.4) 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 - Sta. 1- 6
Fire Department - Sta. 1- 6 (103 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Fire Department - Sta. 1- 6 has more employees than the Fire departments (e.g., government, volu 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 2.9 1.4 3 1 0
2016 2.0 2.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · NC · Burlington

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 148 employers in Burlington, 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 City of Madisonville - Fire 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paia Station 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MS Fire Protection Inc 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marquette Fire Department 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE 103731 - Enviva Hamlet Plant 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Power Contracting 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Construction 103 FTE
STATE-SIZE Synergy Installation Solutions 103 FTE
CITY-NEAR National OnDemand, Inc 511 FTE
CITY-NEAR Twin Lakes Community 410 FTE
CITY-NEAR York Road 398 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lutheran Retirement Ministries of Alamance County 373 FTE
NAT-TCR Alliance (Txfth) 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Kautaq Construction Services, LLC 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Cleveland OH HCS at Home 90-43-63-12 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR dd's DISCOUNTS Store 5290 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bridgeport 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dallastown Operating Inc. 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peapod S&S Ansonia, Ct 103 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wisenbaker Builder Services - RVS 103 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.