Fire and rescue service · Connecticut

Fire/EMS Department

Vernon, CT · ~113 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire/EMS Department runs at 315% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire and rescue service workplace, earning a grade F.

Fire/EMS Department: 10.1 TCR = 315% of Fire and rescue service BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire/EMS Department safety composite

Fire/EMS Department scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 48%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 10.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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/EMS Department: 8.0 → 9.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 16.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.32× in 2024

Fire/EMS Department's TCR rose 1.8 from 8.0 in 2019 to 9.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 16.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Vernon, CT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 315% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #51/113
  • PHOTO Fire Station 10
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~113 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Station 10 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Fire/EMS Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fire/EMS Department averages 10.1 TCR (315% of the Fire and rescue service BLS benchmark).

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

Fire/EMS Department TCR series: 2019=8 · 2020=10.7 · 2021=5.3 · 2022=10.7 · 2023=16.1 · 2024=9.7 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire/EMS Department falls in its industry

793 Fire and rescue service establishments

Safer than 48% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #51 safest of 113 Fire and rescue service employers in Connecticut.

Fire/EMS Department (113 employees, TCR 10.1) 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/EMS Department
Fire/EMS Department (113 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Fire/EMS Department has more employees than the Fire and rescue service 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 9.7 3.3 3 0 0
2023 16.1 8.0 6 0 0
2022 10.7 5.3 4 0 0
2021 5.3 0.0 1 1 0
2020 10.7 8.0 4 0 0
2019 8.0 2.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · CT · Vernon

793 Fire and rescue service employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 43 employers in Vernon, CT · 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 Station 10 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Troy Fire Protection District 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Makawao Station 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire - Station 2 10.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE International Paper 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rogers Corporation EMS-W 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2904-100000547 113 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6206 FAIRFIELD CT 113 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockville General Hospital 276 FTE
CITY-NEAR A Caring Hand 220 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vernon Manor HCC 179 FTE
CITY-NEAR Visiting Nurse and Health Services 176 FTE
NAT-TCR Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Morgantown 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rockford Specialties Company 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Dallas PDC 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR MA 10.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE McCarter Bus Garage 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kaltz Excavating 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hyde Park 113 FTE
NAT-SIZE Country Fresh Products LLC 113 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. 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.