Fire and rescue service · Washington

Vancouver Fire Dept Station 4

Vancouver, WA · ~18 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Vancouver Fire Dept Station 4 runs at 479% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire and rescue service workplace, earning a grade F.

Vancouver Fire Dept Station 4: 15.3 TCR = 479% of Fire and rescue service BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Vancouver Fire Dept Station 4 safety composite

Vancouver Fire Dept Station 4 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 18%), 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).

F

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% 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

Vancouver Fire Dept Station 4: 9.4 → 21.2 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 21.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2020

Vancouver Fire Dept Station 4's TCR rose 11.8 from 9.4 in 2018 to 21.2 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Vancouver, WA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.3 · 479% of ind

  • DART 10.6 DART
  • RANK #15/28
  • PHOTO Fire Dept - Westlake
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Dept - Westlake (0.0 TCR gap)

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Vancouver Fire Dept Station 4 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Vancouver Fire Dept Station 4 averages 15.3 TCR (479% 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

Vancouver Fire Dept Station 4 TCR series: 2018=9.4 · 2020=21.2 · BLS 3.2

Where Vancouver Fire Dept Station 4 falls in its industry

793 Fire and rescue service establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Washington alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #15 safest of 28 Fire and rescue service employers in Washington.

Vancouver Fire Dept Station 4 (18 employees, TCR 15.3) 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 Vancouver Fire Dept Station 4
Vancouver Fire Dept Station 4 (18 employees, TCR 15.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Vancouver Fire Dept Station 4 has fewer employees than the Fire and rescue service median and a higher 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
2020 21.2 10.6 2 2 0
2018 9.4 4.7 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · WA · Vancouver

793 Fire and rescue service employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,147 rated employers in Washington with headcount on file · 490 employers in Vancouver, WA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Fire Dept - Westlake 15.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Fairfield-Fire 15.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Winnetka Fire Department 15.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Portland - Fire Department 15.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Denboer Dairy 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Better Builders 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE ScoCon LLS 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Acc-U-Set Construction, Inc. 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hawthorn Senior Living 3,847 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southwest Medical Center Main Campus 3,464 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6994-PL600 1,970 FTE
CITY-NEAR 600 1,922 FTE
NAT-TCR Luvin Subin LLC 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Achieve Services Inc 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Bam Contracting LLC 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 381655-Cle-Cleveland Hts Br 15.3 TCR

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: 2020, 2018. 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.