Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) · Illinois

York Center Fire Protection District

Lombard, IL · ~59 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

York Center Fire Protection District runs at 228% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) workplace, earning a grade F.

York Center Fire Protection District: 7.3 TCR = 228% of Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

York Center Fire Protection District safety composite

York Center Fire Protection District scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 65% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 38%), 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

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 7.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% 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

York Center Fire Protection District: 5.8 → 11.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.82× in 2024

York Center Fire Protection District's TCR rose 6.1 from 5.8 in 2017 to 11.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 7.3 · 228% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #82/262
  • PHOTO Cherry Valley Fire P…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cherry Valley Fire Protection District Station 2 (0.0 TCR gap)

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York Center Fire Protection District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows York Center Fire Protection District averages 7.3 TCR (228% of the Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) BLS benchmark).

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

York Center Fire Protection District TCR series: 2017=5.8 · 2021=6 · 2022=6.1 · 2023=6.5 · 2024=11.9 · BLS 3.2

Where York Center Fire Protection District falls in its industry

793 Firefighting (except forest), establishments

Safer than 65% 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 #82 safest of 262 Firefighting (except forest), employers in Illinois.

York Center Fire Protection District (59 employees, TCR 7.3) 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 York Center Fire Protection District
York Center Fire Protection District (59 employees, TCR 7.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

York Center Fire Protection District has more employees than the Firefighting (except forest), government 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 11.9 6.0 4 0 0
2023 6.5 0.0 2 0 0
2022 6.1 3.0 2 0 0
2021 6.0 3.0 2 0 0
2017 5.8 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · IL · Lombard

793 Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 133 employers in Lombard, 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 Cherry Valley Fire Protection District Station 2 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rancho Santa Fe Fire Protection District 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Henry Fire Department 7.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Shoreline Fire Department 7.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cornbelt Fire Protection District 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Exelon Nuclear Services & Training Center (STC) 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMEREN ILLINOIS - Electric Field Meter Services 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE 0G5 - Gas Tech - Engineering 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR XLT Management Services, Inc. 6,590 FTE
CITY-NEAR Program Productions, LLC 5,622 FTE
CITY-NEAR Power Wellness Management 1,430 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lombard Park District 342 FTE
NAT-TCR Georgia Manor Nursing Home 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ace Distributing 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR John Lambirth Trucking, Inc. 7.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mill Creek Alz 7.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Corporate Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE 06021-06-06-FIFE 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE 02001-02-02-PORTLAND 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5 - St Cloud 59 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.