Firefighting, forest · Kentucky

Scott County Fire Dept.

Georgetown, KY · ~51 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.0
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Scott County Fire Dept. runs at 221% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Firefighting, forest workplace, earning a grade F.

Scott County Fire Dept.: 10.0 TCR = 221% of Firefighting, forest BLS 4.5 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Scott County Fire Dept. safety composite

Scott County Fire Dept. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.82 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.5

2016→2024

Scott County Fire Dept. injury rate improved

Scott County Fire Dept.'s TCR fell 7.5 from 11.3 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 14.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=11.3 · 2018=14.1 · 2020=14.6 · 2021=10.6 · 2022=13.6 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 115310 · Georgetown, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.0 · 221% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK P15
  • PHOTO Ahlum & Arbor Tree P…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ahlum & Arbor Tree Preservation (0.2 TCR gap)

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Scott County Fire Dept. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Scott County Fire Dept. averages 10.0 TCR (221% of the Firefighting, forest BLS benchmark).

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

Scott County Fire Dept. TCR series: 2016=11.3 · 2018=14.1 · 2020=14.6 · 2021=10.6 · 2022=13.6 · 2023=1.7 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 4.5

Where Scott County Fire Dept. falls in its industry

84 Firefighting, forest establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Scott County Fire Dept. (51 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 59 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Scott County Fire Dept.
Scott County Fire Dept. (51 employees, TCR 10.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 59 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Scott County Fire Dept. has fewer employees than the Firefighting, forest median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 3.8 3.8 2 0 0
2023 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2022 13.6 13.6 5 4 0
2021 10.6 10.6 4 2 0
2020 14.6 10.9 7 1 0
2018 14.1 5.3 8 0 0
2016 11.3 8.1 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

115310 · KY · Georgetown

84 Firefighting, forest employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 93 employers in Georgetown, KY · 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 Ahlum & Arbor Tree Preservation 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR L&B Reforestation, INC. 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR San Bernardino ATB 9.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR NorTerra-Idaho 10.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Big Sandy Plant 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brandenburg Office 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Clark Energy Cooperative 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE PAUL HEMMER COMPANY 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR Toyota Motor Mfg Kentucky, Inc 10,036 FTE
CITY-NEAR YMCA of Central KY - Scott County 3,847 FTE
CITY-NEAR Adient US LLC. 716 FTE
CITY-NEAR VASCOR Ltd 537 FTE
NAT-TCR Holy Cross Hospital 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Earhart Propane 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Steinhagen Enterprises, Inc. 10.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Village of Cassopolis 10.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE SAMCO, Inc 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Koppers Huntington 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fort Collins (15) 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toy Pipeline Contractors, Inc. 51 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, 2018, 2016. 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.