Ambulance and fire service combined · Illinois

Joliet Fire Department

Joliet, IL · ~214 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Joliet Fire Department runs at 488% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade F.

Joliet Fire Department: 15.6 TCR = 488% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Joliet Fire Department safety composite

Joliet Fire Department scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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

Joliet Fire Department: 2.1 → 16.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 26.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.21× in 2021

Joliet Fire Department's TCR rose 14.1 from 2.1 in 2018 to 16.1 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 26.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Joliet, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 15.6 · 488% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #215/262
  • PHOTO Fire Department
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 98 inj
  • SIZE ~214 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Joliet Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Joliet Fire Department averages 15.6 TCR (488% 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

Joliet Fire Department TCR series: 2018=2.1 · 2019=17.7 · 2020=26.6 · 2021=16.1 · BLS 3.2

Where Joliet Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #215 safest of 262 Ambulance and fire service com employers in Illinois.

Joliet Fire Department (214 employees, TCR 15.6) 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 Joliet Fire Department
Joliet Fire Department (214 employees, TCR 15.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Joliet Fire Department has more 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
2021 16.1 3.2 34 1 0
2020 26.6 1.3 22 38 0
2019 17.7 2.3 33 6 0
2018 2.1 0.7 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Joliet

793 Ambulance and fire service combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 281 employers in Joliet, 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 Department 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR County Fire Districts 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 116 ELBURN AND COUNTRYSIDE FIRE PROTECTION DI 15.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire and EMS Station 15.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Prairie State Generating Company, LLC - Power Station 214 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bear Construction Company 214 FTE
STATE-SIZE Curran Contracting Company 214 FTE
STATE-SIZE Quantum Color Graphics , LLC 214 FTE
CITY-NEAR County Of Will 2,500 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : MDW2 2,361 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - MDW2 2,101 FTE
CITY-NEAR Presence Saint Joseph Medical Center, Joliet 2,089 FTE
NAT-TCR Temperance Lake Ridge 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR MIRAMAR 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Goodwill of Colorado - Simms 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Evergreens of Moorhead 15.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE TreeHouse Foods Lancaster, PA 214 FTE
NAT-SIZE Guerbet 214 FTE
NAT-SIZE MA Office 214 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4818-WAPU 214 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.