Local Govt-Fire · Iowa

Sioux City Fire Rescue

Sioux City, IA · ~112 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sioux City Fire Rescue runs at 436% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Local Govt-Fire workplace, earning a grade F.

Sioux City Fire Rescue: 14.0 TCR = 436% of Local Govt-Fire BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sioux City Fire Rescue safety composite

Sioux City Fire Rescue scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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 Rescue: 7.2 → 17.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 17.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.87× in 2020

Sioux City Fire Rescue's TCR rose 10.6 from 7.2 in 2016 to 17.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.87× 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 14.0 · 436% of ind

  • DART 12.2 DART
  • RANK #13/18
  • PHOTO South Whatcom Region…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 44 inj
  • SIZE ~112 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: South Whatcom Regional Fire Authority (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sioux City Fire Rescue in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sioux City Fire Rescue averages 14.0 TCR (436% of the Local Govt-Fire BLS benchmark).

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

Sioux City Fire Rescue TCR series: 2016=7.2 · 2018=17.2 · 2019=13.5 · 2020=17.9 · BLS 3.2

Where Sioux City Fire Rescue falls in its industry

793 Local Govt-Fire establishments

Safer than 30% 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 #13 safest of 18 Local Govt-Fire employers in Iowa.

Sioux City Fire Rescue (112 employees, TCR 14.0) 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 Sioux City Fire Rescue
Sioux City Fire Rescue (112 employees, TCR 14.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Sioux City Fire Rescue has more employees than the Local Govt-Fire 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 17.9 12.2 18 7 0
2019 13.5 4.3 9 10 0
2018 17.2 6.5 12 12 0
2016 7.2 1.4 5 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IA · Sioux City

793 Local Govt-Fire 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 South Whatcom Regional Fire Authority 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Orland Fire Protection District 14.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Station 1 14.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Diebold Nixdorf Urbandale IA 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE C&S Products Co. Inc. - North Plant 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farmers Union Cooperative 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0057 LOWE S OF BURLINGTON IA. 112 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 R.L.Zeigler Co., Inc. 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Guard Construction and Contracting Corporation 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mercury Air Cargo (JAL) 14.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Highline Rehabilitation & Care Community 14.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Saint John Paul II Center 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milan-Deere Returns 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amneal Pharmaceuticals-47 Col Drive 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE FI - Boca Raton, LLC 112 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, 2019, 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.