Firefighting services (except forest and private) · Illinois

Norwood Park Fire Protection District

Harwood Heights, IL · ~30 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Norwood Park Fire Protection District runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Firefighting services (except forest and private) workplace, earning a grade D.

Norwood Park Fire Protection District: 4.9 TCR = 154% of Firefighting services (except forest and private) BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Norwood Park Fire Protection District safety composite

Norwood Park Fire Protection District 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).

C

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 4.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.1

2020→2024

Norwood Park Fire Protection District injury rate improved

Norwood Park Fire Protection District's TCR fell 7.1 from 7.1 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 10.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=7.1 · 2021=10.7 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Harwood Heights, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 154% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #46/262
  • PHOTO Village of Elmwood P…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Village of Elmwood Park Fire Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Norwood Park Fire Protection District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Norwood Park Fire Protection District averages 4.9 TCR (154% of the Firefighting services (except forest and private) BLS benchmark).

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

Norwood Park Fire Protection District TCR series: 2020=7.1 · 2021=10.7 · 2022=2.2 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.2

Where Norwood Park Fire Protection District falls in its industry

793 Firefighting services (except establishments

Safer than 79% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #46 safest of 262 Firefighting services (except employers in Illinois.

Norwood Park Fire Protection District (30 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 Norwood Park Fire Protection District
Norwood Park Fire Protection District (30 employees, TCR 4.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Norwood Park Fire Protection District has fewer employees than the Firefighting services (except forest and 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 4.7 0.0 2 0 0
2022 2.2 2.2 0 1 0
2021 10.7 10.7 3 0 0
2020 7.1 7.1 0 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Harwood Heights

793 Firefighting services (except forest and private) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 18 employers in Harwood Heights, IL · 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 Village of Elmwood Park Fire Department 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1083 GRAYSLAKE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orem City Fire Department 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Oak Brook - Fire Dept 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Odell Fire 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Northern N - IL Common Ops 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chicago Loop Tech 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Spoon River Electric Cooperative, Inc. 30 FTE
CITY-NEAR FCL Graphics, Inc. 256 FTE
CITY-NEAR 531-00510 255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lawrence Screw Products, Inc. 139 FTE
CITY-NEAR 746 HARWOOD HEIGHTS, IL 94 FTE
NAT-TCR Challenge Alabama (Challenge Manufacturing Plant 9) 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Solar Connection 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Colonial Systems 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 2355 - Fultondale 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brewers Supply Group - Atlanta GA 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monroeville OH 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Div 10 Juneau 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1208 30 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.