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

Fire Depatment

Cedar Rapids, IA · ~158 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.2
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire Depatment runs at 318% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) workplace, earning a grade F.

Fire Depatment: 10.2 TCR = 318% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire Depatment safety composite

Fire Depatment scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

45/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 10.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
D 6.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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 Depatment: 7.7 → 12.7 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 12.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.59× in 2019

Fire Depatment's TCR rose 5.0 from 7.7 in 2018 to 12.7 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Cedar Rapids, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.2 · 318% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #6/18
  • PHOTO Wonder Lake Fire Pro…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~158 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wonder Lake Fire Protection District (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fire Depatment in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fire Depatment averages 10.2 TCR (318% 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 Depatment TCR series: 2018=7.7 · 2019=12.7 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire Depatment falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 18 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Iowa.

Fire Depatment (158 employees, TCR 10.2) 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 Depatment
Fire Depatment (158 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Fire Depatment has more employees than the Fire departments (e.g., government, volu 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
2019 12.7 6.0 13 8 0
2018 7.7 5.7 14 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IA · Cedar Rapids

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 466 employers in Cedar Rapids, IA · 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 Wonder Lake Fire Protection District 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR 155 PLAINFIELD FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kingman Fire Department Administration Building 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lincoln Electric Automation Bettendorf 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2807-0552 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unit # 1612 158 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1621 158 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockwell Collins (Cedar Rapids IA 400 NE) 6,179 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockwell Collins - Cedar Rapids C Ave 6,172 FTE
CITY-NEAR CRST EXPEDITED INC 3,475 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Methodist Hospital 2,949 FTE
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0019 0782 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Mondelez Glastonbury 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR DEN 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Empire Merchants, LLC 10.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pure Romance, LLC 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Key Safety Systems Knoxville, TN 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ottenweller Company, Inc. Fort Wayne Headquarters 158 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Isle of Palms 158 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.