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

Volunteer Fire and Ambulance

East Hampton, CT · ~70 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Volunteer Fire and Ambulance runs at 371% 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.

Volunteer Fire and Ambulance: 11.9 TCR = 371% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Volunteer Fire and Ambulance safety composite

Volunteer Fire and Ambulance scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 16%), 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

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 11.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

Volunteer Fire and Ambulance: 11.9 → 400000.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 400000.0 TCR · DART/TCR 16863.41× in 2024

Volunteer Fire and Ambulance's TCR rose 399988.1 from 11.9 in 2021 to 400000.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 16863.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · East Hampton, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.9 · 371% of ind

  • DART 200000.0 DART
  • RANK #63/113
  • PHOTO Hampshire Fire Prote…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

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

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Volunteer Fire and Ambulance in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Volunteer Fire and Ambulance averages 11.9 TCR (371% 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

Volunteer Fire and Ambulance TCR series: 2021=11.9 · 2022=400 · 2024=400000 · BLS 3.2

Where Volunteer Fire and Ambulance falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #63 safest of 113 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Connecticut.

Volunteer Fire and Ambulance (70 employees, TCR 11.9) 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 Volunteer Fire and Ambulance
Volunteer Fire and Ambulance (70 employees, TCR 11.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Volunteer Fire and Ambulance 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
2024 400000.0 200000.0 2 0 0
2022 400.0 400.0 1 0 0
2021 11.9 11.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · CT · East Hampton

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 13 employers in East Hampton, CT · 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 Hampshire Fire Protection District 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Vancouver Fire Dept Station 2 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rutland-Dundee Townships Fire Protection District 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department HQ 11.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lebanon 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Tolland 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pavarini NE Construction Co. LLC 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Middletown Public Works 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR SUPER STOP & SHOP STORE 2611 136 FTE
CITY-NEAR 102611 134 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eversource - East Hampton 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR DATTCO - East Hampton 64 FTE
NAT-TCR Port Sheldon Manufacturing 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunshine Homes Inc 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Highlands 11.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 1331 - Lake Stevens 11.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sun Outdoors Cape Charles 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Eastern Lift Truck Co., Inc. Br7 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crossroads Care Center 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tadd LLC 70 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, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.