Ambulance and fire service combined · Alaska

West Lakes Fire / Big Lake Department

Big Lake, AK · ~25 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West Lakes Fire / Big Lake Department runs at 167% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ambulance and fire service combined workplace, earning a grade D.

West Lakes Fire / Big Lake Department: 5.3 TCR = 167% of Ambulance and fire service combined BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Lakes Fire / Big Lake Department safety composite

West Lakes Fire / Big Lake Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 76% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 5.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 76% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

West Lakes Fire / Big Lake Department: 5.2 → 5.5 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.04× in 2021

West Lakes Fire / Big Lake Department's TCR rose 0.4 from 5.2 in 2020 to 5.5 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Big Lake, AK ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 167% of ind

  • DART 5.5 DART
  • RANK #8/12
  • PHOTO Fire Protection
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~25 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Protection (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Lakes Fire / Big Lake Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Lakes Fire / Big Lake Department averages 5.3 TCR (167% 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

West Lakes Fire / Big Lake Department TCR series: 2020=5.2 · 2021=5.5 · BLS 3.2

Where West Lakes Fire / Big Lake Department falls in its industry

793 Ambulance and fire service com establishments

Safer than 76% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alaska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 12 Ambulance and fire service com employers in Alaska.

West Lakes Fire / Big Lake Department (25 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 West Lakes Fire / Big Lake Department
West Lakes Fire / Big Lake Department (25 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

West Lakes Fire / Big Lake Department has fewer 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
2021 5.5 5.5 1 0 0
2020 5.2 5.2 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · AK · Big Lake

793 Ambulance and fire service combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,558 rated employers in Alaska with headcount on file · 3 employers in Big Lake, AK · 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 Protection 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Marengo Fire Protection District 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lexington Community Fire Protection District 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE FWA Depot 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sand Point Services, LLC. 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Worley Alaska Field Services at Anchorage Fabrication Facility 25 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alaska Line Builders, LLC 25 FTE
CITY-NEAR NANA Construction Co., LLC 358 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arctic Insulation & Manufacturing, LLC 30 FTE
NAT-TCR 532 Mankato North 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Paul Cormier Well Service Co 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Consolidated Irrigation District 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR City Hall 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Residence Inn Yorba Linda 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE I.S.A. Corporation 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wrought Washer Manufacturing 25 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gravity Factory 25 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: 2021, 2020. 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.