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
West Lakes Fire / Big Lake Department Big Lake, AK D 5.3
Marengo Fire Protection District Marengo, IL D 5.3
Lexington Community Fire Protection District Lexington, IL D 5.3
Fire Station 4 Salem, OR D 5.2
Fire Department Bloomington, IN D 5.2
Noroton Heights Fire Department Darien, CT D 5.2
Village of Niles Fire Department Niles, IL D 5.2
Gurnee Fire Department Gurnee, IL D 5.2
City of Greensboro- Fire Department Greensboro, NC D 5.2
Lincoln Rural Fire Protection District Lincoln, IL D 5.2
Oxford Fire Departments Oxford, CT D 5.2
St. Charles Fire Department St Charles, IL D 5.2
Bensenville Fire Protection District Bensenville, IL D 5.2
City of Middletown - Fire Service Middletown, CT D 5.2
Admin Offices - Kahului Kahului, HI D 5.2
Fire Station I Farmington Hills, MI D 5.1
City of Tempe Fire Medical Rescue Department Tempe, AZ D 5.1
Fire Station #4 Lakeville, MN D 5.1
White Hills Fire Company #5 Shelton, CT D 5.0
Village of Hinsdale Fire Department Hinsdale, IL D 5.0
Tri-State Fire Protection District Darien, IL D 5.0
Village of Oak Brook - Fire Dept Oak Brook, IL D 5.0
Orem City Fire Department Orem, UT D 5.0
1083 Grayslake Fire Protection District Grayslake, IL D 5.0
Norwood Park Fire Protection District Harwood Heights, IL D 4.9
Village of Elmwood Park Fire Department Village of Elmwood Park, IL D 4.9
Station 2-1 Butte Fire Palmer, AK D 4.9
Fire Station #2 Lakeville, MN D 4.9
Fire Dept. Elk Grove Village, IL D 4.8
Southern Region : Csr Fresno, CA D 4.8
Milford Fire Department - Station 7 Milford, CT D 4.8
Fire Department Hopkinsville, KY D 4.8
Fire Department Greenwich, CT D 4.8
Fire Stations Elmhurst, IL D 4.8
FR-FIRE Charlotte, NC D 4.8
Volunteer Firefighters Merced, CA D 4.8
Station 60 - Admin Tacoma, WA D 4.7
Lahaina Station Lahaina, HI D 4.7
City of Chicago Heights Fire Department Chicago Heights, IL D 4.6
Fire Department Olney, IL D 4.6
Milford Fire Department - Station 5 Milford, CT D 4.6
Middletown Fire Department Middletown, CT D 4.5
La Grange Fire Department La Grange, IL D 4.5
Station 60 Tacoma, WA D 4.5
City of Effingham - Fire Effingham, IL D 4.5
Lake Villa Fire Protection District Lake Villa, IL D 4.4
Kula Station Kula, HI D 4.4
Suffolk Fire & Rescue Suffolk, VA D 4.4
Fire Department Bay City, MI D 4.3
Fire Department Winona, MN D 4.3
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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.