Ambulance and fire service combined · Washington

Kitsap County Fire District #18

Poulsbo, WA · ~54 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.2
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kitsap County Fire District #18 runs at 350% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade F.

Kitsap County Fire District #18: 11.2 TCR = 350% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kitsap County Fire District #18 safety composite

Kitsap County Fire District #18 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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 11.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 16.45 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Kitsap County Fire District #18: 11.1 → 16.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 16.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.47× in 2023

Kitsap County Fire District #18's TCR rose 5.3 from 11.1 in 2021 to 16.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Poulsbo, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.2 · 350% of ind

  • DART 16.4 DART
  • RANK #9/28
  • PHOTO Fox River Grove Fire…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fox River Grove Fire Protection District (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kitsap County Fire District #18 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kitsap County Fire District #18 averages 11.2 TCR (350% 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

Kitsap County Fire District #18 TCR series: 2021=11.1 · 2022=6 · 2023=16.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Kitsap County Fire District #18 falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 28 Ambulance and fire service com employers in Washington.

Kitsap County Fire District #18 (54 employees, TCR 11.2) 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 Kitsap County Fire District #18
Kitsap County Fire District #18 (54 employees, TCR 11.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Kitsap County Fire District #18 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
2023 16.4 16.4 9 0 0
2022 6.0 6.0 3 1 0
2021 11.1 11.1 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · WA · Poulsbo

793 Ambulance and fire service combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 32 employers in Poulsbo, WA · 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 Fox River Grove Fire Protection District 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Wood River Fire Department 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bristol Fire & Rescue 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire 11.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Seneca Foods, Dayton, WA Plant 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fallout 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Briarwood Farms 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE FV Frontier Explorer 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Martha & Mary Health Services 453 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5272 369 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5272 341 FTE
CITY-NEAR Martha and Mary Health Services 291 FTE
NAT-TCR Mariposa Landscapes Inc - Gardena 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0356 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Seafood City Supermarket - Arroyo 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Barry Callebaut American Canyon Manufacturing 11.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Homeland 469 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Country Mart 513 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Sunwest IL 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bashas 017 54 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.