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

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.

F
Failing Safety Record
23.3
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.2
industry benchmark (BLS)
2
worker fatalities on record

Grade compares Nashville Fire Department's OSHA Total Case Rate of 23.3 to the Executive and Legislative Offices, Combined BLS benchmark of 3.2 (728% of benchmark) across 5 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Nashville Fire Department's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.2 industry benchmark.

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Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 921140.

Where Nashville Fire Department falls in its industry

263 Executive and Legislative Offi establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #65 safest of 66 Executive and Legislative Offi employers in Tennessee.

Trend analysis for Nashville Fire Department

Between 2017 and 2021, Nashville Fire Department's Total Case Rate worsened from 12.0 to 36.2 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 203% increase across 4 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2017, at a TCR of 12.0, while 2021 saw the highest rate, at 36.2, a spread of 24.3 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a wide swing relative to the establishment's overall rate, worth checking the year-by-year table below for whether a single severe year is driving the average, rather than a sustained trend.

Summed across those 5 reporting years, Nashville Fire Department recorded 1,001 total injuries and illnesses and 2 fatalities. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 5-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 1,001 injuries, 447 illnesses, and 2 fatalities shown on this page for Nashville Fire Department are sourced from its own 5 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 921140 - Executive and Legislative Offices, Combined.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2021)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

355 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 2,494,361 hours worked = 28.46 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Nashville Fire Department (this establishment) 23.31 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 5-year avg
Legislative and executive office combinations industry avg 3.20 BLS IIF, NAICS 921140
Tennessee state avg (all industries) 4.09 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Nashville Fire Department to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

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

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Nashville Fire Department's reported OSHA injury record versus its Executive and Legislative Offices, Combined peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 728% of the Executive and Legislative Offices, Combined benchmark, Nashville Fire Department reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Executive and Legislative Offices, Combined sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Nashville Fire Department's safety grade?
Nashville Fire Department has a safety grade of F (Failing Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 23.3 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.2 for Executive and Legislative Offices, Combined.
How many injuries has Nashville Fire Department reported?
Nashville Fire Department has reported 1,001 total injuries and 2 fatalities across 5 years of OSHA data (2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.