Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) · Illinois

Marengo Fire Protection District

Marengo, IL · ~30 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Marengo Fire Protection District runs at 166% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) workplace, earning a grade D.

Marengo Fire Protection District: 5.3 TCR = 166% of Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Marengo Fire Protection District safety composite

Marengo Fire Protection District scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% 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

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 5.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% 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%).

Marengo Fire Protection District held a steady TCR band

Marengo Fire Protection District's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 23.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=8.9 · 2020=23.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 166% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #58/262
  • PHOTO Lexington Community …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lexington Community Fire Protection District (0.0 TCR gap)

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Marengo Fire Protection District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Marengo Fire Protection District averages 5.3 TCR (166% of the Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Marengo Fire Protection District TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=8.9 · 2020=23 · 2021=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.2

Where Marengo Fire Protection District falls in its industry

793 Firefighting (except forest), establishments

Safer than 76% 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 #58 safest of 262 Firefighting (except forest), employers in Illinois.

Marengo Fire Protection District (30 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 Marengo Fire Protection District
Marengo Fire Protection District (30 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Marengo Fire Protection District has fewer employees than the Firefighting (except forest), government 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 23.0 23.0 1 2 0
2019 8.9 0.0 0 1 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Marengo

793 Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 26 employers in Marengo, 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 Lexington Community Fire Protection District 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR West Lakes Fire / Big Lake Department 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Station 4 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Odell Fire 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Northern N - IL Common Ops 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chicago Loop Tech 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spoon River Electric Cooperative, Inc. 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mitsubishi Logisnext Americas Marengo 544 FTE
CITY-NEAR UniCarriers Americas 472 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thomson Linear Motion 273 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pork King Packing, Inc. 243 FTE
NAT-TCR Berea Store 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bedford Memorial Hospital 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lady Lake FL Truss 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Northvine Postacute Care 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Public Works Bridge and Street Operations 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Heritage Place Boerne 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sweetheart Orchards, LLC 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE G.R. Osterland Co. 30 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.