Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) · Illinois

Forreston Fire Protection District

Forreston, IL · ~35 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Forreston Fire Protection District runs at 213% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) workplace, earning a grade F.

Forreston Fire Protection District: 6.8 TCR = 213% of Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Forreston Fire Protection District safety composite

Forreston Fire Protection District scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% 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

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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%).

TCR Δ

−20.5

2022→2024

Forreston Fire Protection District injury rate improved

Forreston Fire Protection District's TCR fell 20.5 from 20.5 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 20.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=20.5 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Forreston, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.8 · 213% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #77/262
  • PHOTO Fire Station 210
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Station 210 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Forreston Fire Protection District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Forreston Fire Protection District averages 6.8 TCR (213% of the Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) BLS benchmark).

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

Forreston Fire Protection District TCR series: 2022=20.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.2

Where Forreston Fire Protection District falls in its industry

793 Firefighting (except forest), establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #77 safest of 262 Firefighting (except forest), employers in Illinois.

Forreston Fire Protection District (35 employees, TCR 6.8) 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 Forreston Fire Protection District
Forreston Fire Protection District (35 employees, TCR 6.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Forreston Fire Protection District has fewer employees than the Firefighting (except forest), government 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 20.5 20.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Forreston

793 Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 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 210 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morris Fire Protection & Ambulance District 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Octavia Fire Protection District 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dynegy Kendall Energy LLC 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE M.J.M. Electric Cooperative, Inc. 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE South Beloit Office 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPage Water Commission 35 FTE
NAT-TCR Truckee Donner Public Utility District 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR RHBA Acquisitions LLC dba Red Head Brass, LLC 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Grocery Outlet of Lynden 6.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Virginia Living Museum 6.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lakeside Industries - Vancouver 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Esch Landscaping, LLC 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Beyer Services 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Midwest Refrigerated Madison LLC - Beloit 35 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.