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

Kill Devil Hills Fire/EMS

Kill Devil Hills, NC · ~32 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kill Devil Hills Fire/EMS runs at 196% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) workplace, earning a grade D.

Kill Devil Hills Fire/EMS: 6.3 TCR = 196% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kill Devil Hills Fire/EMS safety composite

Kill Devil Hills Fire/EMS scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

C

61/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
C 3.06 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

−6.4

2023→2024

Kill Devil Hills Fire/EMS injury rate improved

Kill Devil Hills Fire/EMS's TCR fell 6.4 from 9.5 in 2023 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=9.5 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Kill Devil Hills, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 196% of ind

  • DART 3.1 DART
  • RANK #27/36
  • PHOTO City of Royal Oak - …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~32 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Royal Oak - Fire Departments (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kill Devil Hills Fire/EMS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kill Devil Hills Fire/EMS averages 6.3 TCR (196% 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

Kill Devil Hills Fire/EMS TCR series: 2023=9.5 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 3.2

Where Kill Devil Hills Fire/EMS falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 36 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in North Carolina.

Kill Devil Hills Fire/EMS (32 employees, TCR 6.3) 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 Kill Devil Hills Fire/EMS
Kill Devil Hills Fire/EMS (32 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Kill Devil Hills Fire/EMS has fewer 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 3.1 3.1 1 0 0
2023 9.5 9.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · NC · Kill Devil Hills

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 20 employers in Kill Devil Hills, NC · 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 Royal Oak - Fire Departments 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jr. Lifeguard HQ 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kingman Fire Department 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire & EMS 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE T.C. Smith Produce Farm 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE LATHAMS NURSERY INC. - MONROE, NC 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lake Wendell Farming Co. LLC 32 FTE
STATE-SIZE Case Farms Goldsboro Hatchery 32 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3414 - Outer Banks 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3216 LOWE S OF KILL DEVIL HILLS NC 130 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2807-3216 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR FIRST FLIGHT HIGH 126 FTE
NAT-TCR Crown Heating & Cooling, Inc. 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Memphis,TN - 444 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Golden Valley 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR OSF Saint Elizabeth Medical Center 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Three Peaks Corp 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE Central District Services 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Pump & Motor Works, Inc. 32 FTE
NAT-SIZE GUSS Automation, LLC. 32 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.