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

Fire Station 9

Salem, OR · ~17 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire Station 9 runs at 276% 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 Station 9: 8.8 TCR = 276% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire Station 9 safety composite

Fire Station 9 scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 55% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 8.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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%).

Fire Station 9 held a steady TCR band

Fire Station 9's TCR held near 0.0 from 9.2 in 2016 to 9.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 30.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.05× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.2 · 2017=7.7 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=6.9 · 2020=30.4 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=15.8 · 2024=9.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Salem, OR ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 276% of ind

  • DART 9.3 DART
  • RANK #17/43
  • PHOTO Unit 10: Fire Protec…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~17 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Unit 10: Fire Protection (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fire Station 9 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fire Station 9 averages 8.8 TCR (276% 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 Station 9 TCR series: 2016=9.2 · 2017=7.7 · 2018=0 · 2019=6.9 · 2020=30.4 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=15.8 · 2024=9.3 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire Station 9 falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 55% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Oregon alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 43 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Oregon.

Fire Station 9 (17 employees, TCR 8.8) 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 Station 9
Fire Station 9 (17 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Fire Station 9 has fewer 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
2024 9.3 9.3 1 0 0
2023 15.8 15.8 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 30.4 7.6 4 0 0
2019 6.9 0.0 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 7.7 7.7 1 0 0
2016 9.2 9.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · OR · Salem

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 8,031 rated employers in Oregon with headcount on file · 471 employers in Salem, OR · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Unit 10: Fire Protection 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pine Rock Fire Company #4 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Freeport Fire Department - City of Freeport 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arlington Fire District 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE CSS Farms - Ione 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aurora Farms, LLC 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Parkdale 17 FTE
STATE-SIZE Legacy Orchard Management, LLC 17 FTE
CITY-NEAR Oregon State Hospital-Salem Campus 2,036 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : PDX7 1,559 FTE
CITY-NEAR Chemeketa Community College 1,551 FTE
CITY-NEAR Human Service Building ODHS 1,402 FTE
NAT-TCR Coastal Bend Blood Center 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Goya Foods of California 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR LSL 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR XSF 8.8 TCR

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, 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.