Ambulance and fire service combined · Virginia

Fire Department

Newport News, VA · ~360 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.4
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire Department runs at 230% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade F.

Fire Department: 7.4 TCR = 230% 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 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 7.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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: 7.4 → 80.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 80.7 TCR · DART/TCR 10.41× in 2019

Fire Department's TCR rose 73.4 from 7.4 in 2018 to 80.7 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 10.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Newport News, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.4 · 230% of ind

  • DART 76.7 DART
  • RANK #13/29
  • PHOTO Eugene/Springfield F…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 63 inj
  • SIZE ~360 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Eugene/Springfield Fire Department 6 (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 7.4 TCR (230% 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: 2018=7.4 · 2019=80.7 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 29 Ambulance and fire service com employers in Virginia.

Fire Department (360 employees, TCR 7.4) 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
Fire Department (360 employees, TCR 7.4) 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 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
2019 80.7 76.7 38 2 0
2018 7.4 6.5 25 9 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · VA · Newport News

793 Ambulance and fire service combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 330 employers in Newport News, VA · 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 Eugene/Springfield Fire Department 6 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shoreline Fire Department 7.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Henry Fire Department 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bensenville Fire Protection District #2 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Virginia Office 361 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chesterfield VA08 361 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1023 359 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1524 361 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newport News Shipbuilding - Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries 24,543 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Regional Medical Center 2,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Regional Medical Center-113 1,680 FTE
CITY-NEAR 12490 Jefferson Ave 1,503 FTE
NAT-TCR Cleveland Arcade (HR) 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Glass Division 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Atmosphere Annealing LLC, Canton Facility 7.4 TCR
NAT-TCR LEESBURG 8130 CR44 Leg A 7.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lindsay 360 FTE
NAT-SIZE NB Coatings Inc 360 FTE
NAT-SIZE Parkridge Valley Hospital 360 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tri State Distribution, Inc 360 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: 2019, 2018. 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.