Ambulance and fire service combined · Virginia

Newport News Fire Department

Newport News, VA · ~385 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Newport News Fire Department runs at 235% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade F.

Newport News Fire Department: 7.5 TCR = 235% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Newport News Fire Department safety composite

Newport News Fire Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 7.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

−1.6

2020→2022

Newport News Fire Department injury rate improved

Newport News Fire Department's TCR fell 1.6 from 8.7 in 2020 to 7.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.7 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=8.7 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=7.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Newport News, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 235% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #14/29
  • PHOTO Fire Rescue
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 90 inj
  • SIZE ~385 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Rescue (0.0 TCR gap)

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Newport News Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Newport News Fire Department averages 7.5 TCR (235% 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

Newport News Fire Department TCR series: 2020=8.7 · 2021=6.8 · 2022=7.1 · BLS 3.2

Where Newport News Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 29 Ambulance and fire service com employers in Virginia.

Newport News Fire Department (385 employees, TCR 7.5) 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 Newport News Fire Department
Newport News Fire Department (385 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Newport News Fire Department has more employees than the Ambulance and fire service combined 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
2022 7.1 6.5 33 3 0
2021 6.8 5.8 34 1 0
2020 8.7 8.0 23 27 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · VA · Newport News

793 Ambulance and fire service combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 330 employers in Newport News, VA · 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 Fire Rescue 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Station 65 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Riverton Area Fire Protection District 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sioux City Fire and Rescue 7.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amsted Rail Company, Inc. 385 FTE
STATE-SIZE Atlantic Diving Supply INC 385 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2136 385 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mesa Airlines-IAD 385 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newport News Shipbuilding - Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries 24,543 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Regional Medical Center 2,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Regional Medical Center-113 1,680 FTE
CITY-NEAR 12490 Jefferson Ave 1,503 FTE
NAT-TCR Esmaria Inc., dba Select Building Services 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR LindenGrove Communities - Waukesha - Linden Heights 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-SWY-0029-0029-02123 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Adventist Health Shady Grove Medical Center 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE San Jose Water Company 385 FTE
NAT-SIZE All Other Locations 385 FTE
NAT-SIZE Resurgent Capital Services Greenville 385 FTE
NAT-SIZE BJs Burlington/Burlington Local/National Road 385 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.