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

Village of Lake Zurich - Fire

Lake Zurich, IL · ~54 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Village of Lake Zurich - Fire runs at 525% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) workplace, earning a grade F.

Village of Lake Zurich - Fire: 16.8 TCR = 525% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Village of Lake Zurich - Fire safety composite

Village of Lake Zurich - Fire scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
D 3.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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 Lake Zurich - Fire held a steady TCR band

Village of Lake Zurich - Fire's TCR held near 0.1 from 14.5 in 2020 to 14.6 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 21.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.19× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=14.5 · 2021=21.4 · 2022=14.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Lake Zurich, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.8 · 525% of ind

  • DART 3.2 DART
  • RANK #225/262
  • PHOTO Fire Department
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Village of Lake Zurich - Fire in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Village of Lake Zurich - Fire averages 16.8 TCR (525% 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 Lake Zurich - Fire TCR series: 2020=14.5 · 2021=21.4 · 2022=14.6 · BLS 3.2

Where Village of Lake Zurich - Fire falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 19% 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 #225 safest of 262 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Illinois.

Village of Lake Zurich - Fire (54 employees, TCR 16.8) 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 Village of Lake Zurich - Fire
Village of Lake Zurich - Fire (54 employees, TCR 16.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Village of Lake Zurich - Fire has more employees than the Fire departments (e.g., government, volu 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
2022 14.6 3.2 7 2 0
2021 21.4 3.3 10 3 0
2020 14.5 4.8 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Lake Zurich

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 · 84 employers in Lake Zurich, 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 Fire Department 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR FIRE #8 15 W. 1300 SO. 16.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Bakersfield Fire Department 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR NORTHERN REGION : HUU 16.9 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 B and B Maintenance, Inc. 1,077 FTE
CITY-NEAR ECHO Incorporated 945 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC 915 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fresenius Kabi USA Lake Zurich Office 853 FTE
NAT-TCR 6458-ZPIT 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bristol Farms Beverly West 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 4769-141-OUTLETS 16.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Legacy at Maiden Park 16.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE 9095-PDX 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kenn-Feld Group-Van Wert 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goodwill of Colorado - Central Park 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE RGV Alliance Construction LLC 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.