Fire and rescue service · Utah

Orem City Fire Department

Orem, UT · ~78 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Orem City Fire Department runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fire and rescue service workplace, earning a grade D.

Orem City Fire Department: 5.0 TCR = 155% of Fire and rescue service BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Orem City Fire Department safety composite

Orem City Fire Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% 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

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 4.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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

−5.4

2020→2024

Orem City Fire Department injury rate improved

Orem City Fire Department's TCR fell 5.4 from 8.3 in 2020 to 2.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 8.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=8.3 · 2021=6.2 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=3.0 · 2024=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Orem, UT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 155% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #2/10
  • PHOTO 1083 GRAYSLAKE FIRE …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 24 inj
  • SIZE ~78 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 1083 GRAYSLAKE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT (0.0 TCR gap)

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Orem City Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Orem City Fire Department averages 5.0 TCR (155% of the Fire and rescue service BLS benchmark).

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

Orem City Fire Department TCR series: 2020=8.3 · 2021=6.2 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=3 · 2024=2.9 · BLS 3.2

Where Orem City Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Fire and rescue service establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Utah alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 10 Fire and rescue service employers in Utah.

Orem City Fire Department (78 employees, TCR 5.0) 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 Orem City Fire Department
Orem City Fire Department (78 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Orem City Fire Department has more employees than the Fire and rescue service 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 2.9 2.9 3 0 0
2023 3.0 3.0 3 0 0
2022 4.5 4.5 5 0 0
2021 6.2 6.2 6 0 0
2020 8.3 5.9 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · UT · Orem

793 Fire and rescue service employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 3,861 rated employers in Utah with headcount on file · 119 employers in Orem, UT · 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 1083 GRAYSLAKE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Oak Brook - Fire Dept 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR TRI-STATE FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norwood Park Fire Protection District 4.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE EAGLE MOUNTAIN 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE Woodside Homes 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE HD Construction 78 FTE
STATE-SIZE REI Steel, LLC 78 FTE
CITY-NEAR Timpanogos Regional Hospital 664 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mountainland Supply Co 593 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1768 435 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1768 430 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 1247 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 3216 - Los Angeles Koreatown 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 2348 - Lake Geneva 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Corix/Cleveland Thermal 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE First Student-Berrien Springs 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kern Ag Services Inc 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE Renaissance Columbus Westerville-Polaris Hotel 78 FTE
NAT-SIZE George Evans Corporation 78 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.

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

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