Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) · Illinois

Unit 7 Fire Protection District

Gillespie, IL · ~54 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Unit 7 Fire Protection District runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) workplace, earning a grade B.

Unit 7 Fire Protection District: 2.5 TCR = 78% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Unit 7 Fire Protection District safety composite

Unit 7 Fire Protection District scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 93% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 2.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 93% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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%).

Unit 7 Fire Protection District held a steady TCR band

Unit 7 Fire Protection District's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 20.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=20.0 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Gillespie, IL AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 78% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #14/262
  • PHOTO City of Effingham
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Effingham (0.0 TCR gap)

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Unit 7 Fire Protection District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Unit 7 Fire Protection District averages 2.5 TCR (78% of the Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS benchmark).

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

Unit 7 Fire Protection District TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=20 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.2

Where Unit 7 Fire Protection District falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 93% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 262 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Illinois.

Unit 7 Fire Protection District (54 employees, TCR 2.5) 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 Unit 7 Fire Protection District
Unit 7 Fire Protection District (54 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Unit 7 Fire Protection District has more employees than the Fire departments (e.g., government, volu 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 20.0 20.0 2 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Gillespie

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 8 employers in Gillespie, IL · 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 Effingham 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marquette Fire Department 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Paia Station 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR NORTHERN REGION : CNR 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Illinois Crop Improvement Association, Inc. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Illinois Electric Cooperative 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenlink Energy Solutions, Inc. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE POINTCORE Construction, LLC 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heritage Health - Gillespie 83 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heritage Manor - Gillespie #127 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gillespie CUSD7 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ben-Gil Elementary School 56 FTE
NAT-TCR Big Beverages Contract Manufacturing 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR TASCO Thompson & Sons 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR NationsBenefits LLC Costa Mesa 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR New Paris 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE IT Asset Management Group 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waterfowl Winery 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE 9221 Globe 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Continental Identification Products 54 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.