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

Park Ridge Fire Department

Park Ridge, IL · ~53 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.5
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Park Ridge Fire Department runs at 422% 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.

Park Ridge Fire Department: 13.5 TCR = 422% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Park Ridge Fire Department safety composite

Park Ridge Fire Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 12%), 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).

F

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% 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

Park Ridge Fire Department: 11.0 → 14.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 14.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.1× in 2019

Park Ridge Fire Department's TCR rose 3.8 from 11.0 in 2017 to 14.9 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Park Ridge, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.5 · 422% of ind

  • DART 14.9 DART
  • RANK #191/262
  • PHOTO Tri-State Fire Prote…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tri-State Fire Protection District (0.0 TCR gap)

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Park Ridge Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Park Ridge Fire Department averages 13.5 TCR (422% of the Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS benchmark).

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

Park Ridge Fire Department TCR series: 2017=11 · 2018=14.6 · 2019=14.9 · BLS 3.2

Where Park Ridge Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 31% 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 #191 safest of 262 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Illinois.

Park Ridge Fire Department (53 employees, TCR 13.5) 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 Park Ridge Fire Department
Park Ridge Fire Department (53 employees, TCR 13.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Park Ridge Fire Department has fewer employees than the Fire departments (e.g., government, volu 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 14.9 14.9 8 0 0
2018 14.6 11.0 6 2 0
2017 11.0 9.7 7 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Park Ridge

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 35 employers in Park Ridge, 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 Tri-State Fire Protection District 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR East Haven Fire Department 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Protection 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Albany Fire Station 13 13.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Flamm Orchards Inc 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE DuPont Pioneer Princeton IL Research-PRI2 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2505-Mason City, IL 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prairie State Generating Company - Corporate Office 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Advocate Lutheran General Hospital 4,306 FTE
CITY-NEAR Park Ridge Park District 421 FTE
CITY-NEAR TheKey - IL, Park Ridge (1300 W Higgins Road) 322 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spark Therapy, LLC 309 FTE
NAT-TCR CPI Products LLC 13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR PDX - Airport United Airlines Offices 13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bridgewater Wholesalers, Inc. 13.5 TCR
NAT-TCR KK-Quakertown CSC 13.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE City of Riverside Public Works Street Maintenance 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE VVS, Inc - Lincoln Warehouse 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gatch Electrical Contractors, Inc. 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Packaging Unlimited - Franklin 53 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, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.