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

Fire Dept.

Elk Grove Village, IL · ~97 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire Dept. runs at 151% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) workplace, earning a grade D.

Fire Dept.: 4.8 TCR = 151% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire Dept. safety composite

Fire Dept. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 51%), 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 4.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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

−5.0

2017→2022

Fire Dept. injury rate improved

Fire Dept.'s TCR fell 5.0 from 8.5 in 2017 to 3.5 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 8.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.73× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=8.5 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=5.2 · 2022=3.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Elk Grove Village, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.8 · 151% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #45/262
  • PHOTO Fire Station #2
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Station #2 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fire Dept. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fire Dept. averages 4.8 TCR (151% 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 Dept. TCR series: 2017=8.5 · 2018=4.3 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=5.2 · 2022=3.5 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire Dept. falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 79% 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 #45 safest of 262 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Illinois.

Fire Dept. (97 employees, TCR 4.8) 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 Dept.
Fire Dept. (97 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Fire Dept. 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
2022 3.5 3.5 4 0 0
2020 5.2 1.7 6 0 0
2019 2.6 1.7 3 0 0
2018 4.3 2.6 3 2 0
2017 8.5 6.8 6 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Elk Grove Village

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 274 employers in Elk Grove Village, 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 Fire Station #2 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR SOUTHERN REGION : CSR 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Milford Fire Department - Station 7 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Ieso LLC 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fox Metro Water Reclamation District 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE pan oceanic engineering 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE M.I.V 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR creative werks, LLC 3,317 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-ILARL008 2,154 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harvard Maintenance Inc. of Illinois 1,937 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILARL008 ASCENSION HEALTH ALEXIAN BROTHERS MEDICAL CENTER 1,712 FTE
NAT-TCR Food Giant #596 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Tucker Operating - 1697 Montreal Circle 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR City of South Fulton Public Works - OMI 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 050282-Aptos Po 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE MedVet Asheville 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jaru, Inc. - Flagler Center Blvd. 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Superior Grocers #146 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Baillie Lumber Smyrna Yard 97 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: 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.