City Government · Arizona

Tucson Fire Department

Tucson, AZ · ~717 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Tucson Fire Department runs at 248% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical City Government workplace, earning a grade F.

Tucson Fire Department: 7.9 TCR = 248% of City Government BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tucson Fire Department safety composite

Tucson Fire Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 61% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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 7.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

Tucson Fire Department: 7.3 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 8.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.75× in 2024

Tucson Fire Department's TCR rose 0.5 from 7.3 in 2022 to 7.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Tucson, AZ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.9 · 248% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #13/20
  • PHOTO City of Albany Fire …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 222 inj
  • SIZE ~717 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Albany Fire Station 11 and Administration (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tucson Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tucson Fire Department averages 7.9 TCR (248% of the City Government BLS benchmark).

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

Tucson Fire Department TCR series: 2022=7.3 · 2023=8.7 · 2024=7.8 · BLS 3.2

Where Tucson Fire Department falls in its industry

793 City Government establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 20 City Government employers in Arizona.

Tucson Fire Department (717 employees, TCR 7.9) 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 Tucson Fire Department
Tucson Fire Department (717 employees, TCR 7.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Tucson Fire Department has more employees than the City Government 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 7.8 6.0 72 0 0
2023 8.7 6.6 79 0 0
2022 7.3 5.7 71 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · AZ · Tucson

793 City Government employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 1,150 employers in Tucson, AZ · 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 City of Albany Fire Station 11 and Administration 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Glenview Fire Department 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 7.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Mops Bridgecrest 716 FTE
STATE-SIZE City of Phoenix E70 Parks&Rec 716 FTE
STATE-SIZE Havasu Regional Medical Center 712 FTE
STATE-SIZE Christian Care Management Inc 722 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Arizona 18,951 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Tucson_AZ_Airport Site 9,878 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tucson Medical Center 4,407 FTE
CITY-NEAR U.S. Border Patrol Sector - Tucson 3,989 FTE
NAT-TCR Rosara Investments, LLC Ea06 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Heaven Hill Bernheim Distillery 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR COMBDRIN-IndyNorth 7.9 TCR
NAT-TCR R&L Electric, Inc. 7.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Taylor Farms Texas, Inc - Deli 717 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mann Packing Inc 717 FTE
NAT-SIZE 050 Lci 717 FTE
NAT-SIZE Keeneland Association, Inc. 717 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. 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.