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

Fire & EMS

Colonial Heights, VA · ~59 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire & EMS runs at 198% 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 & EMS: 6.3 TCR = 198% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire & EMS safety composite

Fire & EMS scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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 & EMS: 5.7 → 7.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.82× in 2019

Fire & EMS's TCR rose 1.3 from 5.7 in 2018 to 7.0 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Colonial Heights, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 198% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #9/29
  • PHOTO Fire Department
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fire & EMS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fire & EMS averages 6.3 TCR (198% 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 TCR series: 2018=5.7 · 2019=7 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire & EMS falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 29 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Virginia.

Fire & EMS (59 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 & EMS
Fire & EMS (59 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Fire & EMS 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
2019 7.0 5.2 3 1 0
2018 5.7 3.8 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · VA · Colonial Heights

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 71 employers in Colonial Heights, VA · 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 Department 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR FIRE/EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Royal Oak - Fire Departments 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kill Devil Hills Fire/EMS 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bluefield VA Trs Svc Bldg 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE AUGUSTA FACILTY 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pulte Homes 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE K. Hovnanian Mid-Atlantic Division, LLC 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hillphoenix Plant 1 767 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1424 434 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1424 402 FTE
CITY-NEAR Colonial Heights Public Schools 366 FTE
NAT-TCR All Phase Restoration - Windsor 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0029 2056 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Dairy Farms 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Harlan Family Ranch 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE MRF Oakland 10th 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE NEJ, Inc. Ideal 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yk-Open 12/6/10 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kerry-Crossville 59 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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