Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) · Michigan

Northfield Township Fire Department

Name: Northfield Township Fire Department Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Whitmore Lake, MI · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 6.7
Avg TCR: 3.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Northfield Township Fire Department runs at 208% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) workplace, earning a grade F.

Northfield Township Fire Department: 6.7 TCR = 208% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northfield Township Fire Department safety composite

Northfield Township Fire Department 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).

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 6.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Northfield Township Fire Department: 0.0 → 13.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 13.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2020

Northfield Township Fire Department's TCR rose 13.3 from 0.0 in 2019 to 13.3 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Whitmore Lake, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 208% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #12/29
PHOTO Fire Department
BOOK 2y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Northfield Township Fire Department averages 6.7 TCR (208% of the Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS benchmark).

Northfield Township Fire Department TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=13.3 · BLS 3.2

Where Northfield Township Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 68% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 29 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Michigan.

Northfield Township Fire Department (24 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Northfield Township Fire Department has fewer employees than the Fire departments (e.g., government, volu 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
2020	13.3	0.0	1	0	0
2019	0.0	0.0	0	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · MI · Whitmore Lake

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 18 employers in Whitmore Lake, MI · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Fire Department	RICHMOND, VA	6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Wauconda Fire Protection District	WAUCONDA, IL	6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Fire Department	HOFFMAN ESTATES, IL	6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Germantown Hills Fire Protection District	GERMANTOWN HILLS, IL	6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Medina Dairy, LLC	HUDSON	24 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Sturgis	STURGIS	24 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CE Innovation Center	JACKSON	24 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Water Filtration and Meter Shop	MONROE	24 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Regency at Whitmore Lake	Whitmore Lake	129 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CEI Michigan, LLC	Whitmore Lake	111 FTE
CITY-NEAR	GM & Sons, Inc.	Whitmore Lake	101 FTE
CITY-NEAR	RheTech, LLC - Whitmore Lake	Whitmore Lake	88 FTE
NAT-TCR	EMF Company	Dallas, TX	6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	LAL Acquisitions INC	Muncie, IN	6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Arrow Exterminators Marietta	Marietta, GA	6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR	Atascadero	Atascadero, CA	6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE	2077-Us Dd Nw Davenport Branch	Davenport, FL	24 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Abe-El Produce Inc	Orosi, CA	24 FTE
NAT-SIZE	3044 & 1559 LKQ Laporte	Laporte, IN	24 FTE
NAT-SIZE	LMVNA Thousand Oaks	Thousand Oaks, CA	24 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: 2020, 2019. 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.