Fire and rescue service · Virginia

Suffolk Fire & Rescue

Suffolk, VA · ~274 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Suffolk Fire & Rescue runs at 138% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Fire and rescue service workplace, earning a grade D.

Suffolk Fire & Rescue: 4.4 TCR = 138% of Fire and rescue service BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Suffolk Fire & Rescue safety composite

Suffolk Fire & Rescue scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 4.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Suffolk Fire & Rescue: 2.3 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 9.5 TCR · DART/TCR 2.01× in 2023

Suffolk Fire & Rescue's TCR rose 7.2 from 2.3 in 2016 to 9.5 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.01× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Suffolk, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.4 · 138% of ind

  • DART 8.8 DART
  • RANK #5/29
  • PHOTO Kula Station
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~274 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kula Station (0.0 TCR gap)

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Suffolk Fire & Rescue in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Suffolk Fire & Rescue averages 4.4 TCR (138% of the Fire and rescue service BLS benchmark).

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

Suffolk Fire & Rescue TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2018=1.5 · 2023=9.5 · BLS 3.2

Where Suffolk Fire & Rescue falls in its industry

793 Fire and rescue service establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 29 Fire and rescue service employers in Virginia.

Suffolk Fire & Rescue (274 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 Suffolk Fire & Rescue
Suffolk Fire & Rescue (274 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Suffolk Fire & Rescue has more employees than the Fire and rescue service 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
2023 9.5 8.8 17 12 0
2018 1.5 1.5 3 1 0
2016 2.3 2.3 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · VA · Suffolk

793 Fire and rescue service employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 161 employers in Suffolk, VA · 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 Kula Station 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lake Villa Fire Protection District 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Effingham - Fire 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE CB Fleet 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE 3644 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chantilly HQ 274 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unit 1053 274 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - ORF3 3,196 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3841 - UDC-Suffolk 1,700 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3841 - Suffolk UDC 1,478 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sentara Obici Hospital 1,384 FTE
NAT-TCR Myers Spring Co 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR DoubleTree by Hilton Ann Arbor North 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #2085 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR River Falls Schl Dist* 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE 101 - Sanford 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sheraton Kauai Resort 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minn/St Paul MN FXFE-MSP 274 FTE
NAT-SIZE The ESCO Group 274 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: 2023, 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.