Fire Protection · Arizona

Tucson Fire

Tucson, AZ · ~679 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Tucson Fire runs at 208% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire Protection workplace, earning a grade F.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.2
industry benchmark (BLS)
390
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Tucson Fire's OSHA Total Case Rate of 6.7 to the Fire Protection BLS benchmark of 3.2 (208% of benchmark) across 6 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Tucson Fire's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.2 industry benchmark.

2345678 201620172018201920212022 7.33.2 Industry benchmarkTucson Fire TCR
Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 922160.

Where Tucson Fire falls in its industry

1,057 Fire Protection establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 22 Fire Protection employers in Arizona.

Trend analysis for Tucson Fire

Between 2016 and 2022, Tucson Fire's Total Case Rate worsened from 5.7 to 7.3 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 29% increase across 6 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2016, at a TCR of 5.7, while 2019 saw the highest rate, at 7.7, a spread of 2.0 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 6 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.

Summed across those 6 reporting years, Tucson Fire recorded 390 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 6-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 390 injuries, 1 illnesses shown on this page for Tucson Fire are sourced from its own 6 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 922160 - Fire Protection.

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2022)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

55 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 1,941,876 hours worked = 5.66 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Tucson Fire (this establishment) 6.66 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 6-year avg
Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) industry avg 3.20 BLS IIF, NAICS 922160
Arizona state avg (all industries) 4.73 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Tucson Fire to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2022 7.3 5.7 71 0 0
2021 5.7 4.7 71 0 0
2019 7.7 5.4 68 1 0
2018 6.7 5.1 60 0 0
2017 7.0 4.3 66 0 0
2016 5.7 4.2 54 0 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Tucson Fire's reported OSHA injury record versus its Fire Protection peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 208% of the Fire Protection benchmark, Tucson Fire reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Fire Protection sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Tucson Fire's safety grade?
Tucson Fire has a safety grade of F (Failing Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 6.7 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.2 for Fire Protection.
How many injuries has Tucson Fire reported?
Tucson Fire has reported 390 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 6 years of OSHA data (2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

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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: 2022, 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017, 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.