Industry profile · NAICS 922160

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

Workplace injury rates across 1,046 OSHA-reporting establishments in this industry, 2016–2024.

1,046
Employers
10.8
Avg TCR
3.2
BLS benchmark
32,820
Injuries

The industry picture

Employers in Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) average 10.8 recordable injuries per 100 workers, 3.4 times the BLS national benchmark of 3.2.

10.8
avg TCR · reporting employers
3.2
BLS national benchmark
1,046
employers reporting
32,820
recordable injuries

OSHA-reporting establishments skew toward larger, higher-hazard sites, so the reporting average runs above the BLS all-establishment benchmark.

What Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) Safety Data Reveals

The Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) sector (NAICS 922160) encompasses 1,046 distinct employer establishments currently reporting to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Across this cohort, workers have logged 32,820 recordable injuries during the 2016–2024 reporting window, producing an industry-weighted average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 10.8 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year. Because OSHA's ITA mandates submission from establishments with 250+ employees plus all high-hazard industries at 20+ employees, this dataset represents a structural slice of U.S. workplace risk rather than a voluntary sample.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes a separate national benchmark TCR of 3.2 for this NAICS code, derived from the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses. Comparing the two, the ITA-reported rate of 10.8 is higher than the BLS benchmark, a gap that typically widens when the industry contains many large, high-exposure establishments required to file ITA reports. Employers in the table below are sorted so you can see how far individual establishments deviate from both the industry average and the national benchmark.

The practical value of industry-level safety data is threefold. First, jobseekers can gauge whether a prospective employer is better or worse than its industry peers, not just absolute injury counts, which tilt toward larger payrolls. Second, insurers and workers' compensation carriers use sector TCR as a baseline for experience-modification adjustments. Third, safety professionals benchmark their own programs against the cohort median. Use the grade-sorted employer list below to identify specific establishments within Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) that outperform or underperform the sector average, and click through to each record for year-by-year injury, illness, and fatality breakdowns.

Employers in this industry, by injury rate

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Employer LocationGradeAvg TCR
267 Warrenville Fire Protection District Warrenville, IL F 29.9
City of Meriden Fire Camp Street Meriden, CT F 29.8
Lifeguard HQ Huntington Beach, CA F 29.5
Station 5-1 EMS Palmer, AK F 28.6
Fire Department Unionville, CT F 28.3
City of New Haven - FIRE 105 Fountain Street New Haven, CT F 27.8
Northern Region : Meu Willits, CA F 27.7
Eugene/Springfield - Fire Station 5 Springfield, OR F 27.6
City of New Haven FIRE 525 Howard Avenue New Haven, CT F 27.0
Southern Region : Tcu San Andreas, CA F 26.8
Fire Station 5 Des Moines, IA F 26.6
VFD Fire Station 5 Vancvouver, WA F 25.6
City Of Sacramento-Operations Roll-Up (120012) Sacramento, CA F 25.5
Southern Region : Rru Perris, CA F 25.2
Northern Region : Scu Morgan Hill, CA F 25.1
Kensington Vol Fire Department Berlin, CT F 25.0
Fire Volunteer Oroville, CA F 24.9
Fire Station 1 Salem, OR F 24.8
Northern Region : Sku Yreka, CA F 24.7
Northern Region : Czu Felton, CA F 24.6
Fire Station 4 Des Moines, IA F 24.5
Fire Department Fairfield, CA F 24.4
City of Yakima Fire Department Yakima, WA F 24.4
Southern Region : Beu Monterey, CA F 24.4
City of Meriden Fire Department Engine #1 Meriden, CT F 24.4
Northern Region : Shu Redding, CA F 24.2
City Of Meriden Fire Department Engine #3 Meriden, CT F 24.2
Coty Of Meriden Fire Department Engine #4 Meriden, CT F 24.1
City of Ramsey - Fire Ramsey, MN F 24.1
Marseilles Fire Protection District Marseilles, IL F 23.9
Station 2: Murdy Huntington Beach, CA F 23.7
City of Anaheim, Fire Station #6 Anaheim, CA F 23.4
Gresham Fire & Emergency Services Gresham, OR F 23.4
Station 23 Hillsboro Hillsboro, OH F 23.3
Tulare County Fire Visalia, CA F 23.3
Eugene/Springfield Administration Eugene, OR F 23.3
City of Granite City Fire Department Granite City, IL F 23.2
Fire Station Greenup, IL F 23.1
Excelsior Fire District Shorewood, MN F 23.1
Fire Protection Rolling Meadows, IL F 23.1
Fire Services West Hartford, CT F 23.1
Central Marin Fire Authority Corte Madera, CA F 23.0
South Pierce Fire & Rescue Eatonville, WA F 23.0
Station 40 Orting, WA F 23.0
City Of Meriden Fire Department Engine # 2 Meriden, CT F 22.9
Fire Station Dallas, OR F 22.9
Northern Region : Tgu Red Bluff, CA F 22.9
City Of Meriden Fire Department #5 Meriden, CT F 22.9
Southern Region : Mvu El Cajon, CA F 22.8
Station 1: Gothard Huntington Beach, CA F 22.8
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This sector averages 10.8 against a BLS benchmark of 3.2 - but individual employers span the full A-to-F range.

Sector figures use the credible-subset mean across reporting employers; a benchmark is not any single establishment's measured rate.

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.