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

Fire Dept - Westlake

Lake Oswego, OR · ~15 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.4
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire Dept - Westlake runs at 480% 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 Dept - Westlake: 15.4 TCR = 480% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire Dept - Westlake safety composite

Fire Dept - Westlake scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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 Dept - Westlake: 8.5 → 9.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 27.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2020

Fire Dept - Westlake's TCR rose 0.9 from 8.5 in 2016 to 9.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 27.5 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Lake Oswego, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.4 · 480% of ind

  • DART 9.4 DART
  • RANK #31/43
  • PHOTO Vancouver Fire Dept …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vancouver Fire Dept Station 4 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fire Dept - Westlake in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fire Dept - Westlake averages 15.4 TCR (480% 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 - Westlake TCR series: 2016=8.5 · 2017=16.1 · 2018=27.5 · 2020=9.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire Dept - Westlake falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 43 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Oregon.

Fire Dept - Westlake (15 employees, TCR 15.4) 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 Dept - Westlake
Fire Dept - Westlake (15 employees, TCR 15.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Fire Dept - Westlake has fewer 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
2020 9.4 9.4 2 0 0
2018 27.5 20.6 4 0 0
2017 16.1 8.0 2 0 0
2016 8.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · OR · Lake Oswego

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 82 employers in Lake Oswego, OR · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Vancouver Fire Dept Station 4 15.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Winnetka Fire Department 15.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sugar Grove Fire Protection District 15.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vancouver Fire Dept Station 5 15.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cold Springs Dairy LLC 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE E.A. CHAMBERS FARMS, INC. 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Root Orchards 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Juniper Ridge Construction LLC 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mary's Woods at Marylhurst 336 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eclipse Support Center 152 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Springs at Lake Oswego 148 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1107 - NSM Mountain Park 140 FTE
NAT-TCR Highland Springs Hospital 15.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Newark Care and Rehabilitation 15.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Reilly Plating Co. 15.4 TCR
NAT-TCR ReinCoat, LLC 15.4 TCR

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: 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.