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

Fire & Emergency Services

Fayetteville, NC · ~346 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire & Emergency Services runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) workplace, earning a grade C.

Fire & Emergency Services: 3.3 TCR = 102% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire & Emergency Services safety composite

Fire & Emergency Services scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% 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

68/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
C 3.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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 & Emergency Services: 3.1 → 3.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 3.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.94× in 2024

Fire & Emergency Services's TCR rose 0.4 from 3.1 in 2023 to 3.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.94× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Fayetteville, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 102% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #14/36
  • PHOTO Collingswood Fire De…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~346 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Collingswood Fire Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fire & Emergency Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fire & Emergency Services averages 3.3 TCR (102% 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 & Emergency Services TCR series: 2023=3.1 · 2024=3.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire & Emergency Services falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 88% 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 #14 safest of 36 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in North Carolina.

Fire & Emergency Services (346 employees, TCR 3.3) 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 & Emergency Services
Fire & Emergency Services (346 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Fire & Emergency Services 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
2024 3.4 3.0 17 0 0
2023 3.1 2.5 13 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · NC · Fayetteville

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 · 317 employers in Fayetteville, 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 Collingswood Fire Department 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Services/Emergency Preparedness 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Oxford Fire and Ambulance 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kingman Fire Department Station 22 3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Burford Construction Florida Statewide Operations 346 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5292 346 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 515 346 FTE
STATE-SIZE WM 1666 346 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cape Fear Valley Health System/Cumberland County 5,925 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company - Fayetteville 2,118 FTE
CITY-NEAR County of Cumberland 2,104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Goodyear Fayetteville 2,044 FTE
NAT-TCR Carter Component Plant 534 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Fountain Manor Health & Rehabilitation Center 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR CA-Rancho Vista Sub Station 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 117 Dorsett 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Flnap - Naples 346 FTE
NAT-SIZE International Automotive Components 346 FTE
NAT-SIZE Seagrave Fire Apparatus 346 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northern Lakes Community Mental Health Authority 346 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: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.