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

Village of Homewood Fire Department

Homewood, IL · ~26 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Village of Homewood Fire Department runs at 93% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) workplace, earning a grade C.

Village of Homewood Fire Department: 3.0 TCR = 93% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Village of Homewood Fire Department safety composite

Village of Homewood Fire Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 90% 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).

C

69/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 2.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 90% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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%).

Village of Homewood Fire Department held a steady TCR band

Village of Homewood Fire Department's TCR held near 0.0 from 3.0 in 2023 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=3.0 · 2024=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 93% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #20/262
  • PHOTO Macomb City Fire Dept.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~26 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Macomb City Fire Dept. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Village of Homewood Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Village of Homewood Fire Department averages 3.0 TCR (93% 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

Village of Homewood Fire Department TCR series: 2023=3 · 2024=3 · BLS 3.2

Where Village of Homewood Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 90% 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 #20 safest of 262 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Illinois.

Village of Homewood Fire Department (26 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Village of Homewood Fire Department
Village of Homewood Fire Department (26 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Village of Homewood 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 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2023 3.0 3.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Homewood

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 · 41 employers in Homewood, 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 Macomb City Fire Dept. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Spring Grove Fire Protection District 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Madison Park Vol. Fire Co. 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Limestone Township Fire Protection District 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rock River - Corporate 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hill 'N Dale Farm 26 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jackson Generation 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eagle Express Lines, Inc 1,775 FTE
CITY-NEAR Homewood 585 FTE
CITY-NEAR CCSI-Homewood 416 FTE
CITY-NEAR 5404 357 FTE
NAT-TCR Stoneledge Furniture LLC- Santa Clarita 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR STR0604 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Elysian Brewing Company, Inc. 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stebnitz Builders Inc. 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stoneledge Furniture, LLC - Palm Desert 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE CA-AirOps Chino 26 FTE
NAT-SIZE CA-Bishop S/C 26 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.