Ambulance and fire service combined · Arizona

Northwest Fire District

Tucson, AZ · ~248 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Northwest Fire District runs at 332% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade F.

Northwest Fire District: 10.6 TCR = 332% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Northwest Fire District safety composite

Northwest Fire District scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 10.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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%).

Northwest Fire District held a steady TCR band

Northwest Fire District's TCR held near 0.3 from 10.8 in 2018 to 10.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.8 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.71× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=10.8 · 2019=10.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Tucson, AZ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.6 · 332% of ind

  • DART 7.6 DART
  • RANK #16/20
  • PHOTO Fire Department
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 55 inj
  • SIZE ~248 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Northwest Fire District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Northwest Fire District averages 10.6 TCR (332% 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

Northwest Fire District TCR series: 2018=10.8 · 2019=10.5 · BLS 3.2

Where Northwest Fire District falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 20 Ambulance and fire service com employers in Arizona.

Northwest Fire District (248 employees, TCR 10.6) 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 Northwest Fire District
Northwest Fire District (248 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Northwest Fire District has more 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 10.5 7.6 28 1 0
2018 10.8 6.5 27 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · AZ · Tucson

793 Ambulance and fire service combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 1,150 employers in Tucson, AZ · 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 Department 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cary Fire Protection District 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Hamden - Fire Department 10.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fann Contracting, Inc. 248 FTE
STATE-SIZE CMC Steel Arizona 248 FTE
STATE-SIZE 660-00698 248 FTE
STATE-SIZE 034 - Phoenix Az 248 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Arizona 18,951 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Tucson_AZ_Airport Site 9,878 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tucson Medical Center 4,407 FTE
CITY-NEAR U.S. Border Patrol Sector - Tucson 3,989 FTE
NAT-TCR The Quality Companies, Inc. 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Broughton Hospital 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Co 800 Maines Food & Party Warehouse 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR TDS Georgetown 10.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE HNY Ferry LLC 248 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kuehne + Nagel Inc. (INDP-6437) 248 FTE
NAT-SIZE W. Lee Flowers & CO, INC. 248 FTE
NAT-SIZE Public Works Compound 248 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.

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

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