Fire Protection · Virginia

Fire Rescue Services

Norfolk, VA · ~534 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Fire Rescue Services runs at 322% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire Protection workplace, earning a grade F.

Fire Rescue Services: 10.3 TCR = 322% of Fire Protection BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire Rescue Services safety composite

Fire Rescue Services scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 3%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 10.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 3% 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 Rescue Services: 10.0 → 11.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.23× in 2024

Fire Rescue Services's TCR rose 1.0 from 10.0 in 2019 to 11.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.23× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Norfolk, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 322% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #21/29
  • PHOTO 078 SHERMAN FIRE PRO…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 265 inj
  • SIZE ~534 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 078 SHERMAN FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fire Rescue Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fire Rescue Services averages 10.3 TCR (322% of the Fire Protection BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Fire Rescue Services TCR series: 2019=10 · 2020=9.3 · 2023=10.9 · 2024=11 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire Rescue Services falls in its industry

793 Fire Protection establishments

Safer than 47% 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 #21 safest of 29 Fire Protection employers in Virginia.

Fire Rescue Services (534 employees, TCR 10.3) 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 Rescue Services
Fire Rescue Services (534 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Fire Rescue Services has more employees than the Fire Protection 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 11.0 2.4 65 0 1
2023 10.9 3.1 63 0 0
2020 9.3 5.2 56 0 0
2019 10.0 3.6 81 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · VA · Norfolk

793 Fire Protection employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 473 employers in Norfolk, 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 078 SHERMAN FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kingman Fire Department Administration Building 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Apex Fire Systems Inc. 10.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE LYNCHBURG PLANT 534 FTE
STATE-SIZE Molson Coors Beverage Company 535 FTE
STATE-SIZE NS&E Reston Office 535 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tidewater Physicians Multispecialty Group 535 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sentara Norfolk General Hospital 4,863 FTE
CITY-NEAR Childrens Hospital of The Kings Dau 3,707 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Atlantic Group dba DZ Atlantic 3,248 FTE
CITY-NEAR Norfolk State University 2,981 FTE
NAT-TCR Range Mental Health Center - Bell 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 115 Tempe 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Harrington Court 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenbrier Parma 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Madix Inc - Eclectic 534 FTE
NAT-SIZE AMPAC Fine Chemicals 534 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tech Etch Plymouth 534 FTE
NAT-SIZE Travis Industries 534 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, 2020, 2019. 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.