Ambulance and fire service combined · Illinois

Homer Township Fire Protection District

Lockport, IL · ~38 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Homer Township Fire Protection District runs at 529% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade F.

Homer Township Fire Protection District: 16.9 TCR = 529% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Homer Township Fire Protection District safety composite

Homer Township Fire Protection District scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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)
F 16.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
D 6.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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

Homer Township Fire Protection District: 12.0 → 14.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 26.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.36× in 2024

Homer Township Fire Protection District's TCR rose 2.3 from 12.0 in 2017 to 14.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 26.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 16.9 · 529% of ind

  • DART 6.1 DART
  • RANK #226/262
  • PHOTO Plainfield Fire Prot…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 43 inj
  • SIZE ~38 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plainfield Fire Protection District (0.0 TCR gap)

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Homer Township Fire Protection District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Homer Township Fire Protection District averages 16.9 TCR (529% 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

Homer Township Fire Protection District TCR series: 2017=12 · 2021=26.6 · 2022=14.8 · 2024=14.3 · BLS 3.2

Where Homer Township Fire Protection District falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #226 safest of 262 Ambulance and fire service com employers in Illinois.

Homer Township Fire Protection District (38 employees, TCR 16.9) 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 Homer Township Fire Protection District
Homer Township Fire Protection District (38 employees, TCR 16.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Homer Township 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
2024 14.3 6.1 6 1 0
2022 14.8 9.4 11 0 0
2021 26.6 15.4 19 0 0
2017 12.0 6.8 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Lockport

793 Ambulance and fire service combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 59 employers in Lockport, 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 Plainfield Fire Protection District 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cortland Community Fire Protection District 17.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Bakersfield Fire Department 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR NORTHERN REGION : HUU 16.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE GDM Seeds, Inc - Gibson City, IL 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Distribution Operating - Peoria 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE 629 - Distribution Operating - Peoria 38 FTE
STATE-SIZE Freeport 38 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockport Township High School District 205 East Campus 535 FTE
CITY-NEAR Illinois 459 FTE
CITY-NEAR ILLPT - LOCKPORT 383 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockport Township Park District 382 FTE
NAT-TCR Stone House Bread, LLC 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Charleston Ground 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Strategic Sanitation Services, Inc. 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Cherry Mountain Orchards, Inc. 16.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brad Benton Trucking, Inc. 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE Building Products Plus Co LLC 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE SN1 Sanford Service Center 38 FTE
NAT-SIZE AOM Area Office - Meter Shop 38 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, 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.