municpal fire department · Iowa

Fire Station 6

Des Moines, IA · ~23 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire Station 6 runs at 228% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical municpal fire department workplace, earning a grade F.

Fire Station 6: 8.7 TCR = 228% of municpal fire department BLS 3.8 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire Station 6 safety composite

Fire Station 6 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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 Station 6: 4.2 → 15.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 15.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.37× in 2023

Fire Station 6's TCR rose 11.7 from 4.2 in 2016 to 15.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621910 · Des Moines, IA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.7 · 228% of ind

  • DART 11.9 DART
  • RANK #8/14
  • PHOTO 15 Burke Ln
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 15 Burke Ln (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fire Station 6 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fire Station 6 averages 8.7 TCR (228% of the municpal fire department BLS benchmark).

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

Fire Station 6 TCR series: 2016=4.2 · 2017=7.4 · 2018=7.2 · 2023=15.8 · BLS 3.8

Where Fire Station 6 falls in its industry

976 municpal fire department establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 14 municpal fire department employers in Iowa.

Fire Station 6 (23 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Fire Station 6
Fire Station 6 (23 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

Fire Station 6 has fewer employees than the municpal fire department median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.3. 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
2023 15.8 11.9 2 2 0
2018 7.2 3.6 2 0 0
2017 7.4 3.7 2 0 0
2016 4.2 4.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · IA · Des Moines

976 municpal fire department employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 525 employers in Des Moines, IA · 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 15 Burke Ln 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Community Ambulance 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Life EMS Inc.-Kent 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR STECF Station 2 8.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Remsen Farmers Coop 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE M L Kapp Power Station 2 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Marshalltown Gen Station 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Ames - Electric Distribution 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Center 6,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Medical Center - Des Moines 4,884 FTE
CITY-NEAR MercyOne Des Moines 3,547 FTE
CITY-NEAR Des Moines Methodist Hospital 3,495 FTE
NAT-TCR VRS Rochester, NY 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Salisbury 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Eliada Homes, Inc. 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Classic Envelope 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Alexandria LA FXFE-ALX 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE So Cal Livehaul Belgravia 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Veritiv Operating Company - KS023 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #1391 Raynham Center, MA 23 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: 2023, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.