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

Fire Operations

Concord, NC · ~217 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire Operations runs at 96% 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 Operations: 3.1 TCR = 96% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire Operations safety composite

Fire Operations scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 89% 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 89% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% 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 Operations: 0.3 → 3.5 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.68× in 2021

Fire Operations's TCR rose 3.1 from 0.3 in 2017 to 3.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Concord, NC AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 96% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #11/36
  • PHOTO St. Tammany Fire Dis…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~217 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: St. Tammany Fire District No. 1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fire Operations in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fire Operations averages 3.1 TCR (96% 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 Operations TCR series: 2017=0.3 · 2018=2.9 · 2019=5.7 · 2020=3 · 2021=3.5 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire Operations falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 89% 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 #11 safest of 36 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in North Carolina.

Fire Operations (217 employees, TCR 3.1) 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 Operations
Fire Operations (217 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Fire Operations 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
2021 3.5 2.1 8 2 0
2020 3.0 2.6 8 0 0
2019 5.7 5.3 14 0 0
2018 2.9 2.0 6 1 0
2017 0.3 0.2 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · NC · Concord

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 · 338 employers in Concord, 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 St. Tammany Fire District No. 1 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Limestone Township Fire Protection District 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Matsu Fire Department 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Steger Estates Fire Protection District 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Balfour Beatty Construction, LLC - Carolinas Division 217 FTE
STATE-SIZE Haynes Electric 217 FTE
STATE-SIZE Low & Bonar Inc. 217 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pallet Express 217 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1114-Atrium Health Cabarrus (1114) 3,087 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0070-CHS NorthEast 2,949 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0070-Atrium Health Cabarrus 2,870 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : CLT3 1,263 FTE
NAT-TCR Arcola Health and Rehabilitation Center 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Employment Options 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Synergy Power Group LLC 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 626 - Santa Rosa 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Whitco Supply, Inc. 217 FTE
NAT-SIZE SAT - Ground Ops 217 FTE
NAT-SIZE Renaissance Phoenix Downtown 217 FTE
NAT-SIZE Morningstar Care Center 217 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.