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

Fire / Ems / All Other Employees

Carrboro, NC · ~39 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire / Ems / All Other Employees runs at 343% 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 / Ems / All Other Employees: 11.0 TCR = 343% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire / Ems / All Other Employees safety composite

Fire / Ems / All Other Employees scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 26%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 10.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% 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

−1.6

2021→2024

Fire / Ems / All Other Employees injury rate improved

Fire / Ems / All Other Employees's TCR fell 1.6 from 12.0 in 2021 to 10.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 12.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=12.0 · 2022=10.5 · 2024=10.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Carrboro, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.0 · 343% of ind

  • DART 8.3 DART
  • RANK #33/36
  • PHOTO Washburn Fire Protec…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Washburn Fire Protection District (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fire / Ems / All Other Employees in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fire / Ems / All Other Employees averages 11.0 TCR (343% 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 / Ems / All Other Employees TCR series: 2021=12 · 2022=10.5 · 2024=10.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire / Ems / All Other Employees falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 43% 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 #33 safest of 36 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in North Carolina.

Fire / Ems / All Other Employees (39 employees, TCR 11.0) 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 / Ems / All Other Employees
Fire / Ems / All Other Employees (39 employees, TCR 11.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Fire / Ems / All Other Employees 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
2024 10.4 8.3 4 1 0
2022 10.5 8.4 2 3 0
2021 12.0 8.0 4 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · NC · Carrboro

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 · 19 employers in Carrboro, 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 Washburn Fire Protection District 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Palatine Rural Fire Protection District 10.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Franklin Fire Department 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 923 MANTENO COMMUNITY FPD 11.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Taylor's Nursery-Louisburg 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE B & S Farming, Inc. 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jeffery C Lee Farms, INC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sullivan Farms Inc. 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fleet Feet Sports Development Company 829 FTE
CITY-NEAR J Street LLC 518 FTE
CITY-NEAR ADMIN SERVICES / CENTURY CENTER 149 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6921-00297 91 FTE
NAT-TCR Richwood Meat Company 1 2021 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR San Diego Sector 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cleary Building - Verona Plant 11.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Tosh Pork Martin 11.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Action Plastics, Inc 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE NB Corporation of America 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE empirical foods, inc. - Assembly 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Central Electric co-op 39 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, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.