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

Glen Ellyn Volunteer Fire Company

Glen Ellyn, IL · ~59 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Glen Ellyn Volunteer Fire Company runs at 210% 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.

Glen Ellyn Volunteer Fire Company: 6.7 TCR = 210% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Glen Ellyn Volunteer Fire Company safety composite

Glen Ellyn Volunteer Fire Company scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
D 6 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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

Glen Ellyn Volunteer Fire Company: 2.3 → 6.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 11.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2024

Glen Ellyn Volunteer Fire Company's TCR rose 3.7 from 2.3 in 2021 to 6.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 11.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Glen Ellyn, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 210% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #73/262
  • PHOTO York County Fire Dep…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: York County Fire Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Glen Ellyn Volunteer Fire Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Glen Ellyn Volunteer Fire Company averages 6.7 TCR (210% 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

Glen Ellyn Volunteer Fire Company TCR series: 2021=2.3 · 2023=11.9 · 2024=6 · BLS 3.2

Where Glen Ellyn Volunteer Fire Company falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 68% 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 #73 safest of 262 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Illinois.

Glen Ellyn Volunteer Fire Company (59 employees, TCR 6.7) 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 Glen Ellyn Volunteer Fire Company
Glen Ellyn Volunteer Fire Company (59 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Glen Ellyn Volunteer Fire Company has more employees than the Fire departments (e.g., government, volu 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 6.0 6.0 3 0 0
2023 11.9 8.9 4 0 0
2021 2.3 2.3 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Glen Ellyn

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 · 44 employers in Glen Ellyn, 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 York County Fire Department 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Long Grove Fire Protection District 6.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wauconda Fire Protection District 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Royal Oak - Fire Department 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cornbelt Fire Protection District 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Exelon Nuclear Services & Training Center (STC) 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Electric Field Meter Services 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0G5 - Gas Tech - Engineering 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR College of DuPage 2,427 FTE
CITY-NEAR COLLEGE OF DUPAGE #502 2,368 FTE
CITY-NEAR Glenbard Twp High School District 87 1,408 FTE
CITY-NEAR GLENBARD DIST 87 1,141 FTE
NAT-TCR Stoneybrook Assisted Living 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hewlett 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Huntington Sanitary Board 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hubbell Realty Company 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Erwin Utilities Authority 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Devon's Chocolates 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bronco Concrete Inc 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Independent Packing Services, Inc. 59 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.