Ambulance and fire service combined · Illinois

Morton Grove Fire Department Station 4

Morton Grove, IL · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Morton Grove Fire Department Station 4 runs at 463% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade F.

Morton Grove Fire Department Station 4: 14.8 TCR = 463% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Morton Grove Fire Department Station 4 safety composite

Morton Grove Fire Department Station 4 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

−9.4

2018→2019

Morton Grove Fire Department Station 4 injury rate improved

Morton Grove Fire Department Station 4's TCR fell 9.4 from 19.5 in 2018 to 10.1 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 19.5 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=19.5 · 2019=10.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Morton Grove, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.8 · 463% of ind

  • DART 10.1 DART
  • RANK #206/262
  • PHOTO Little Rock-Fox Fire…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Little Rock-Fox Fire Protection District (0.0 TCR gap)

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Morton Grove Fire Department Station 4 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Morton Grove Fire Department Station 4 averages 14.8 TCR (463% 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

Morton Grove Fire Department Station 4 TCR series: 2018=19.5 · 2019=10.1 · BLS 3.2

Where Morton Grove Fire Department Station 4 falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 27% 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 #206 safest of 262 Ambulance and fire service com employers in Illinois.

Morton Grove Fire Department Station 4 (26 employees, TCR 14.8) 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 Morton Grove Fire Department Station 4
Morton Grove Fire Department Station 4 (26 employees, TCR 14.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Morton Grove Fire Department Station 4 has fewer 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
2019 10.1 10.1 3 0 0
2018 19.5 3.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Morton Grove

793 Ambulance and fire service combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 50 employers in Morton Grove, 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 Little Rock-Fox Fire Protection District 14.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Station #2 14.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jackson County Fire District No. 5 14.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vancouver Fire Dept Station 1 15.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rock River - Corporate 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hill 'N Dale Farm 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jackson Generation 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR AMZL : DCH2 636 FTE
CITY-NEAR Xylem, Inc 496 FTE
CITY-NEAR John Crane Morton Grove 494 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fareva Morton Grove Inc 313 FTE
NAT-TCR Philadelphia - 250 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Amzl : Dsc3 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Knights Precast, Inc 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Paul's Run Retirement Community 14.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE MARINEMAX East INC-HM5 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE CBC - Grand Island Plant 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Houston Arboretum 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE RHM Gin & Warehouse 26 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: 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.