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

Franklin Park Fire Department

Franklin Park, IL · ~44 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Franklin Park Fire Department runs at 519% 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.

Franklin Park Fire Department: 16.6 TCR = 519% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Franklin Park Fire Department safety composite

Franklin Park Fire Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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

−3.9

2020→2023

Franklin Park Fire Department injury rate improved

Franklin Park Fire Department's TCR fell 3.9 from 18.6 in 2020 to 14.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 18.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=18.6 · 2023=14.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Franklin Park, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.6 · 519% of ind

  • DART 4.2 DART
  • RANK #219/262
  • PHOTO City of Norwich: Fir…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Norwich: Fire Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Franklin Park Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Franklin Park Fire Department averages 16.6 TCR (519% 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

Franklin Park Fire Department TCR series: 2020=18.6 · 2023=14.6 · BLS 3.2

Where Franklin Park Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 20% 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 #219 safest of 262 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Illinois.

Franklin Park Fire Department (44 employees, TCR 16.6) 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 Franklin Park Fire Department
Franklin Park Fire Department (44 employees, TCR 16.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Franklin Park Fire Department has fewer employees than the Fire departments (e.g., government, volu 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
2023 14.6 4.2 4 3 0
2020 18.6 9.3 7 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Franklin Park

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 127 employers in Franklin Park, IL · 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 City of Norwich: Fire Department 16.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chatham Fire Department 16.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richmond Township Fire Protection District 16.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 077 LONG CREEK FPD 16.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main Office 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2570-Thomasboro, IL (Monsanto Co.) 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eastern Illini Electric Cooperative Paxton Headquarters 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eastern Illini Elec. Coop. Paxton Heaquarters 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILFRA - FRANKLIN PARK HUB 799 FTE
CITY-NEAR FRANKLIN PARK HUB (ILFRA) 740 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sloan Franklin Park 709 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hill Mechanical Corp 703 FTE
NAT-TCR Idaho Falls #042 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Frog Hollow Farm LLC 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-ABS-0029-0028-03179 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0005-0005-02910 16.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Builders Fence Company, Inc. Corporate/Yard 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Summit Cedar Reman, LLC 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alaska Sausage Company, Inc. 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Compassus - Neenah 44 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, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.