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

Volunteer Firefighters

Morton, IL · ~37 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Volunteer Firefighters runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) workplace, earning a grade C.

Volunteer Firefighters: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Volunteer Firefighters safety composite

Volunteer Firefighters scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% 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

83/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% 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%).

TCR Δ

−64.1

2017→2024

Volunteer Firefighters injury rate improved

Volunteer Firefighters's TCR fell 64.1 from 64.1 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 64.1 TCR.

2017=64.1 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/262
  • PHOTO Fire Department
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Department (0.2 TCR gap)

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Volunteer Firefighters in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Volunteer Firefighters averages 0.0 TCR (0% 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 Firefighters TCR series: 2017=64.1 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.2

Where Volunteer Firefighters falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 100% 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 #0 safest of 262 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Illinois.

Volunteer Firefighters (37 employees, TCR 0.0) 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 Volunteer Firefighters
Volunteer Firefighters (37 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Volunteer Firefighters 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 64.1 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Morton

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 · 93 employers in Morton, 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 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR HEADQUARTERS : 1300 U Street Building 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR HEADQUARTERS : State Fire Marshal 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Willmar - Fire Station 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Curtis Orchard Ltd 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tuscola 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lewis Seed Farms, Inc. - Ursa 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Aurora Fleet Facility 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morton Parts Distribution Center 1,662 FTE
CITY-NEAR Matcor Metal Fabrication Morton 426 FTE
CITY-NEAR Morton Industries LLC 349 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5157 294 FTE
NAT-TCR Cedar Bay Entertainment LLC 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cardinal Health 7000 and 7200 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR One Federal Street 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Envision Printing, LLC 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Oren International 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reliable Contracting Group LLC 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gregory-Edwards, Inc. 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Van Midde & Son Concrete 37 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, 2021, 2017. 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.