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

Fire

Elk River, MN · ~50 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire runs at 486% 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: 15.6 TCR = 486% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire safety composite

Fire scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 10%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 24% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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: 18.0 → 24.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 28.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.03× in 2024

Fire's TCR rose 6.0 from 18.0 in 2017 to 24.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 28.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.03× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Elk River, MN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.6 · 486% of ind

  • DART 16.0 DART
  • RANK #28/38
  • PHOTO Fire and EMS Station
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire and EMS Station (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fire in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fire averages 15.6 TCR (486% 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 TCR series: 2017=18 · 2018=11.8 · 2019=26.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=15.3 · 2022=28.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=24 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 24% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #28 safest of 38 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Minnesota.

Fire (50 employees, TCR 15.6) 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
Fire (50 employees, TCR 15.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Fire 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 24.0 16.0 2 1 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 28.5 21.4 3 1 0
2021 15.3 7.6 1 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 26.9 17.9 2 1 0
2018 11.8 0.0 0 1 0
2017 18.0 9.0 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · MN · Elk River

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 102 employers in Elk River, MN · 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 and EMS Station 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR County Fire Districts 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Joliet Fire Department 15.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Meadow Star 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Louriston 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE East Dublin 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edina Service Center-UB 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3209 437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sherburne County Government Center - General 418 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3209 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sherburne County Government Center 367 FTE
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0513 Hanover 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Kre-Bsl Husky Arbors Operation LLC 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR McDowell Appalachian Regional Healthcare 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lightning Logistics LLC 15.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE NLACRC - Santa Clarita 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at University of Laverne 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE S04289 - Harrison Hauling 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE S03272 - King George County Landfill 50 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.