Ambulance and fire service combined · Illinois

Gardner Fire Protection District

Gardner, IL · ~23 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.7
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gardner Fire Protection District runs at 364% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade F.

Gardner Fire Protection District: 11.7 TCR = 364% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gardner Fire Protection District safety composite

Gardner Fire Protection District scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 11.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

Gardner Fire Protection District: 0.0 → 13.2 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 33.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.13× in 2023

Gardner Fire Protection District's TCR rose 13.2 from 0.0 in 2017 to 13.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 33.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 11.7 · 364% of ind

  • DART 13.2 DART
  • RANK #167/262
  • PHOTO Fire Station 3
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Station 3 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gardner Fire Protection District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gardner Fire Protection District averages 11.7 TCR (364% of the Ambulance and fire service combined BLS benchmark).

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

Gardner Fire Protection District TCR series: 2017=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=33.5 · 2023=13.2 · BLS 3.2

Where Gardner Fire Protection District falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 39% 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 #167 safest of 262 Ambulance and fire service com employers in Illinois.

Gardner Fire Protection District (23 employees, TCR 11.7) 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 Gardner Fire Protection District
Gardner Fire Protection District (23 employees, TCR 11.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Gardner Fire Protection District has fewer employees than the Ambulance and fire service combined 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 13.2 13.2 1 0 0
2022 33.5 16.8 1 1 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Gardner

793 Ambulance and fire service combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 4 employers in Gardner, 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 Fire Station 3 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Rescue 11.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Hanover Park Fire 11.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 11.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Oak Grove 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Point Farms, LLC. 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mendota Office 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nokomis Area Fire Protection District 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dibble Trucking Inc. 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR MIDWEST INDUSTRIAL SALES 41 FTE
CITY-NEAR Superior Environmental Solutions Chicago 26 FTE
NAT-TCR Marcho Farms, Inc 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Stanley Steemer 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Fire Station 3 11.7 TCR
NAT-TCR EVEN Hotel Midtown East 11.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Coeur d Alene CD 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Conifer-CF 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE GM - Green Mountain 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE SM - Salem 23 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, 2022, 2021, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.