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

Richmond Township Fire Protection District

Richmond, IL · ~26 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Richmond Township Fire Protection District runs at 519% 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.

Richmond Township Fire Protection District: 16.6 TCR = 519% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Richmond Township Fire Protection District safety composite

Richmond Township Fire Protection District scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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 16.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% 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

Richmond Township Fire Protection District: 25.1 → 57.1 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 57.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.37× in 2020

Richmond Township Fire Protection District's TCR rose 32.0 from 25.1 in 2017 to 57.1 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Richmond, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.6 · 519% of ind

  • DART 22.8 DART
  • RANK #221/262
  • PHOTO Chatham Fire Departm…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Chatham Fire Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Richmond Township Fire Protection District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Richmond Township Fire Protection District averages 16.6 TCR (519% 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

Richmond Township Fire Protection District TCR series: 2017=25.1 · 2018=8.2 · 2020=57.1 · BLS 3.2

Where Richmond Township Fire Protection District falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 20% 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 #221 safest of 262 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Illinois.

Richmond Township Fire Protection District (26 employees, TCR 16.6) 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 Richmond Township Fire Protection District
Richmond Township Fire Protection District (26 employees, TCR 16.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Richmond Township Fire Protection District 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
2020 57.1 22.8 5 0 0
2018 8.2 8.2 0 1 0
2017 25.1 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Richmond

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 · 14 employers in Richmond, 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 Chatham Fire Department 16.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Norwich: Fire Department 16.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Franklin Park Fire Department 16.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 077 LONG CREEK FPD 16.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rock River - Corporate 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hill 'N Dale Farm 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jackson Generation 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Richmond, IL 283 FTE
CITY-NEAR McHenry, IL - Pallet Plant - 337 176 FTE
CITY-NEAR Leica Biosystems Richmond 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watlow GDN 158 FTE
NAT-TCR Salisbury Ofc/Whse 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Mississippi Precision Cast Parts 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rws Tx Concho Vlly H O Flipper 16.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Copper Creek Landscaping, Inc 16.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hampton Inn 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Niagara Lutheran Health System, Inc. 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tft #537 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bestway Mechanic Shop 26 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, 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.