Executive and Legislative Offices, Combined · Tennessee

Nashville Fire Department

Nashville, TN · ~1,242 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
23.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
2
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nashville Fire Department runs at 728% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Executive and Legislative Offices, Combined workplace, earning a grade F.

Nashville Fire Department: 23.3 TCR = 728% of Executive and Legislative Offices, Combined BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nashville Fire Department safety composite

Nashville Fire Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 2% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

1/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 23.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 28.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 2

Safer than 2% 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

Nashville Fire Department: 12.0 → 36.2 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 36.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.22× in 2021

Nashville Fire Department's TCR rose 24.3 from 12.0 in 2017 to 36.2 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.22× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921140 · Nashville, TN ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 23.3 · 728% of ind

  • DART 28.5 DART
  • RANK #58/59
  • PHOTO Burke County EMS- St…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 1,001 inj
  • SIZE ~1,242 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Burke County EMS- Station 1 (0.4 TCR gap)

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Nashville Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nashville Fire Department averages 23.3 TCR (728% of the Executive and Legislative Offices, Combined BLS benchmark).

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

Nashville Fire Department TCR series: 2017=12 · 2018=13 · 2019=19.2 · 2020=36.2 · 2021=36.2 · BLS 3.2

Where Nashville Fire Department falls in its industry

239 Executive and Legislative Offi establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #58 safest of 59 Executive and Legislative Offi employers in Tennessee.

Nashville Fire Department (1,242 employees, TCR 23.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 282 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 01,0002,0003,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Nashville Fire Department
Nashville Fire Department (1,242 employees, TCR 23.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 282 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Nashville Fire Department has more employees than the Executive and Legislative Offices, Combi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2021 36.2 28.5 285 167 1
2020 36.2 29.4 188 249 0
2019 19.2 9.0 218 11 0
2018 13.0 8.1 160 13 0
2017 12.0 6.4 150 7 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921140 · TN · Nashville

239 Executive and Legislative Offices, Combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 1,187 employers in Nashville, TN · 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 Burke County EMS- Station 1 22.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Mountain City 26.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Conservation - Hickory Grove Park 27.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sheriff's Office- Jail 19.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE CMH Homes, Inc. 1,242 FTE
STATE-SIZE Uranium Processng Facility (UPF) (EPC Work) 1,250 FTE
STATE-SIZE 88050 1,225 FTE
STATE-SIZE eviCore - Franklin 1,262 FTE
CITY-NEAR Parallon Enterprises, LLC 15,267 FTE
CITY-NEAR METROPOLITAN GOVT. OF NASHVILLE,& DAVIDSON COUNTY 10,278 FTE
CITY-NEAR METRO NASHVILLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS 9,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR TriStar Centennial Medical Center 3,106 FTE
NAT-TCR 6458-ZMED 23.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cedarbrook 23.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0606 Edgewater 23.3 TCR
NAT-TCR DuBois Nursing Home 23.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE 517649-Richmond Va P&Dc 1,242 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pahar - Harrisburg 1,242 FTE
NAT-SIZE John Deere Commercial Products 1,242 FTE
NAT-SIZE County of Kenosha 1,242 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: 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.