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

Vadnais Heights South Fire Department

Vadnais Heights, MN · ~44 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Vadnais Heights South Fire Department runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) workplace, earning a grade B.

Vadnais Heights South Fire Department: 1.8 TCR = 56% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vadnais Heights South Fire Department safety composite

Vadnais Heights South Fire Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% 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

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Vadnais Heights South Fire Department: 0.0 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Vadnais Heights South Fire Department's TCR rose 5.3 from 0.0 in 2022 to 5.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Vadnais Heights, MN AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 56% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/38
  • PHOTO Geneseo Fire Protect…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~44 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Geneseo Fire Protection District (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Minnesota employers → · Look up another →

Vadnais Heights South Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vadnais Heights South Fire Department averages 1.8 TCR (56% 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

Vadnais Heights South Fire Department TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=5.3 · BLS 3.2

Where Vadnais Heights South Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Minnesota alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 38 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Minnesota.

Vadnais Heights South Fire Department (44 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 Vadnais Heights South Fire Department
Vadnais Heights South Fire Department (44 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Vadnais Heights South Fire Department has fewer 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 5.3 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · MN · Vadnais Heights

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 15,828 rated employers in Minnesota with headcount on file · 42 employers in Vadnais Heights, MN · 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 Geneseo Fire Protection District 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Washington Fire and Rescue #2 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Stickney Fire Protection District 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lanai Station 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE West River 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monticello Training Ctr-LL 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Treatment Facility 44 FTE
STATE-SIZE WasteWater Treatment Facility 44 FTE
CITY-NEAR MN State Operated Community Services (MSOCS) 1,296 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2087 380 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2087 354 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAC Mechanical & Electrical 338 FTE
NAT-TCR Upt Dfw 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR The Wakefield Corporation 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Giant 2744 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR G. Greene Construction Co., Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Blue Flame Crew, LLC 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Belair Engineering 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE American Computer Development, Inc - North Carolina 44 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kentek Corporation 44 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.