Ambulance and fire service combined · Illinois

Wauconda Fire Protection District

Wauconda, IL · ~57 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Wauconda Fire Protection District runs at 209% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade F.

Wauconda Fire Protection District: 6.7 TCR = 209% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Wauconda Fire Protection District safety composite

Wauconda Fire Protection District scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% 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

63/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% 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

−2.7

2019→2023

Wauconda Fire Protection District injury rate improved

Wauconda Fire Protection District's TCR fell 2.7 from 6.9 in 2019 to 4.2 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 13.8 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.21× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=6.9 · 2020=13.8 · 2021=7.1 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=4.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Wauconda, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 209% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #72/262
  • PHOTO Northfield Township …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Northfield Township Fire Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Wauconda Fire Protection District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Wauconda Fire Protection District averages 6.7 TCR (209% of the Ambulance and fire service combined BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Wauconda Fire Protection District TCR series: 2019=6.9 · 2020=13.8 · 2021=7.1 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=4.2 · BLS 3.2

Where Wauconda Fire Protection District falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 68% 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 #72 safest of 262 Ambulance and fire service com employers in Illinois.

Wauconda Fire Protection District (57 employees, TCR 6.7) 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 Wauconda Fire Protection District
Wauconda Fire Protection District (57 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Wauconda Fire Protection District has more employees than the Ambulance and fire service combined 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
2023 4.2 1.4 3 0 0
2022 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2021 7.1 2.9 5 0 0
2020 13.8 4.1 9 1 0
2019 6.9 1.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Wauconda

793 Ambulance and fire service combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 46 employers in Wauconda, 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 Northfield Township Fire Department 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Germantown Hills Fire Protection District 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Northern S - IL Gas Ops 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Concrete, Inc. 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Centennial Contractors of the Quad Cities, Inc. 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Heritage Carpentry, Inc. 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR Synergy Flavors, Inc. 224 FTE
CITY-NEAR Acres Group - Wauconda facility 215 FTE
CITY-NEAR Berger Excavating Contractors 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wauconda, IL 157 FTE
NAT-TCR Trego/Dugan Aviation Inc Chs 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR SPR New York 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Hanson Trucking Inc 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Killeen Machine Tool Company 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Schnell Contractors, Inc. 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE SSA Pacific West Sacramento 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE ATL-HRP-ATLANTA 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Isd #698 57 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.