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

La Grange Park Fire Department

La Grange Park, IL · ~46 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

La Grange Park Fire Department runs at 551% 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.

La Grange Park Fire Department: 17.6 TCR = 551% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

La Grange Park Fire Department safety composite

La Grange Park Fire Department scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 17%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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

−16.3

2022→2023

La Grange Park Fire Department injury rate improved

La Grange Park Fire Department's TCR fell 16.3 from 25.8 in 2022 to 9.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 25.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=25.8 · 2023=9.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · La Grange Park, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.6 · 551% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #233/262
  • PHOTO City of Elizabethtow…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Elizabethtown Fire Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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La Grange Park Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows La Grange Park Fire Department averages 17.6 TCR (551% 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

La Grange Park Fire Department TCR series: 2022=25.8 · 2023=9.5 · BLS 3.2

Where La Grange Park Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 17% 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 #233 safest of 262 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Illinois.

La Grange Park Fire Department (46 employees, TCR 17.6) 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 La Grange Park Fire Department
La Grange Park Fire Department (46 employees, TCR 17.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

La Grange Park Fire Department has fewer employees than the Fire departments (e.g., government, volu 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 9.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 25.8 0.0 2 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · La Grange Park

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 · 9 employers in La Grange Park, 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 City of Elizabethtown Fire Department 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town - North Madison Fire Company 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Mattoon 17.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR VFD Fire Station 2 17.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Carlyle KFC (MPF1) 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2502-Ashton, IL 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE MID AMERICA ENERGY SERVICES, INC. 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Utility Department 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-000003265 152 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-NAI-0032-0032-02265 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAI-0032-0032-02265 FAC-02265-LA GRANGE PARK-IL 145 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5472-000002265 136 FTE
NAT-TCR Cutter Lane 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Feld Entertainment Inc - D34 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sherpa Delivery Direct, LLC 17.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Spaulding Academy & Family Services 17.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Independent Record Pressing, LLC 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Perennial Energy, LLC 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pronk Technologies Inc. 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brewton Iron Works, Inc 46 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.