Fire Protection · Iowa

Sioux City Fire and Rescue

Sioux City, IA · ~117 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sioux City Fire and Rescue runs at 237% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire Protection workplace, earning a grade F.

Sioux City Fire and Rescue: 7.6 TCR = 237% of Fire Protection BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sioux City Fire and Rescue safety composite

Sioux City Fire and Rescue scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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).

D

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 7.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

Sioux City Fire and Rescue: 6.4 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.86× in 2024

Sioux City Fire and Rescue's TCR rose 2.6 from 6.4 in 2021 to 9.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.86× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Sioux City, IA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.6 · 237% of ind

  • DART 6.5 DART
  • RANK #5/18
  • PHOTO Village of Hanover P…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 40 inj
  • SIZE ~117 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Village of Hanover Park Fire Station 1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sioux City Fire and Rescue in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sioux City Fire and Rescue averages 7.6 TCR (237% of the Fire Protection BLS benchmark).

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

Sioux City Fire and Rescue TCR series: 2021=6.4 · 2022=7.1 · 2023=7.8 · 2024=9 · BLS 3.2

Where Sioux City Fire and Rescue falls in its industry

793 Fire Protection establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Iowa alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 18 Fire Protection employers in Iowa.

Sioux City Fire and Rescue (117 employees, TCR 7.6) 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 Sioux City Fire and Rescue
Sioux City Fire and Rescue (117 employees, TCR 7.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Sioux City Fire and Rescue has more employees than the Fire Protection 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 9.0 6.5 10 1 0
2023 7.8 2.1 11 0 0
2022 7.1 3.5 10 0 0
2021 6.4 3.6 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IA · Sioux City

793 Fire Protection employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,192 rated employers in Iowa with headcount on file · 259 employers in Sioux City, IA · 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 Hanover Park Fire Station 1 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carol Stream Fire Protection District 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Station 66 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Rescue 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Michels Power Inc-IA-Marion 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE A.M. Cohron & Son, Inc. 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Diamond Animal Health, Inc. 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE TarfFix Devices, Inc. Fairfield 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Seaboard Triumph Foods 2,375 FTE
CITY-NEAR SeaboardTriumph Foods 1,896 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Regional Medical Center 1,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp 691 FTE
NAT-TCR Massillon Oh - 3258 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Kansas City West, Ks - 3361 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Spectra Photopolymers 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Team Supreme 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE VA038 Martinsville Container 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE OH067 Circleville Container 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Park 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Morrow Renewables 117 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. 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.