Fire and rescue service · North Carolina

Franklin Fire Department

Franklin, NC · ~20 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Franklin Fire Department runs at 343% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire and rescue service workplace, earning a grade F.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.0
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.2
industry benchmark (BLS)
4
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Franklin Fire Department's OSHA Total Case Rate of 11.0 to the Fire and rescue service BLS benchmark of 3.2 (343% of benchmark) across 3 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Franklin Fire Department's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.2 industry benchmark.

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Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 922160.

Where Franklin Fire Department falls in its industry

1,057 Fire and rescue service establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 37 Fire and rescue service employers in North Carolina.

Trend analysis for Franklin Fire Department

Between 2022 and 2024, Franklin Fire Department's Total Case Rate improved from 19.2 to 0.0 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 100% decrease across 2 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2024, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2022 saw the highest rate, at 19.2, a spread of 19.2 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 3 reporting years, Franklin Fire Department recorded 4 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 3-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 4 injuries shown on this page for Franklin Fire Department are sourced from its own 3 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 922160 - Fire and rescue service.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

0 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 27,442 hours worked = 0.00 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Franklin Fire Department (this establishment) 10.99 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 3-year avg
Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) industry avg 3.20 BLS IIF, NAICS 922160
North Carolina state avg (all industries) 3.89 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Franklin Fire Department to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 13.8 6.9 2 0 0
2022 19.2 9.6 2 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Franklin Fire Department's reported OSHA injury record versus its Fire and rescue service peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 343% of the Fire and rescue service benchmark, Franklin Fire Department reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Fire and rescue service sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Franklin Fire Department's safety grade?
Franklin Fire Department has a safety grade of F (Failing Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 11.0 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.2 for Fire and rescue service.
How many injuries has Franklin Fire Department reported?
Franklin Fire Department has reported 4 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 3 years of OSHA data (2024, 2023, 2022). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.