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
City of South San Francisco - Fire Department South San Francisco, CA F 22.8
Northern Region : Lmu Susanville, CA F 22.7
City of Burnsville - Fire Burnsville, MN F 22.4
Northern Region : Neu Auburn, CA F 22.4
Fire Protection New Britain, CT F 22.2
Northern Region : Lnu St Helena, CA F 22.1
Fire Station - Spruce Hills Bettendorf, IA F 22.0
Northern Region : Aeu Camino, CA F 22.0
Volunteer Fire- North Windham North Windham, CT F 22.0
704 Channahon Fire Protection District Channahon, IL F 22.0
Southern Region : Fku Sanger, CA F 21.9
Decatur Township Fire Department Indianapolis, IN F 21.7
Fire Emergency Services Station 71 Gresham, OR F 21.7
Northern Region : Btu Oroville, CA F 21.6
Highland Township Fire Department Highland, MI F 21.5
Southern Region : Mmu Mariposa, CA F 21.5
Citizens Fire Department Seymour, CT F 21.5
Berlin Vol Fire Dept Berlin, CT F 21.3
Saint Paul Fire Department Saint Paul, MN F 20.9
Fire Station 9 Des Moines, IA F 20.8
City of Jacksonville Fire Department Jacksonville, IL F 20.7
Fire #1 211 So. 500 E. Salt Lake City, UT F 20.7
City of New Haven - FIRE 826 Woodward Avenue New Haven, CT F 20.6
City of New Haven - FIRE 412 Lombard Street New Haven, CT F 20.5
Dale Township Fire Department Bloomington, IL F 20.5
City of New Haven - FIRE 125 Goffee Street New Haven, CT F 20.5
Southern Region : Slu San Luis Obispo, CA F 20.4
Fire Department Ventura, CA F 20.4
City of Pekin - Fire Department Pekin, IL F 20.3
City of Silvis-Fire Department Silvis, IL F 20.3
Station 21 Greenfield Greenfield, OH F 20.3
Camano Island Fire Rescue Camano Island, WA F 20.3
City of Phoenix B10 Fire Dept Phoenix, AZ F 20.1
Central Kitsap Fire and Rescue Silverdale, WA F 20.0
Medora Vol. Fire Department Medora, IL F 20.0
Derby Fire Department Derby, CT F 20.0
Station 7-3 West Lakes Fire Wasilla, AK F 20.0
City of Highland Fire Department Highland, IL F 19.9
City of Anaheim, Fire Station #1 Anaheim, CA F 19.9
Hays County ESD No 5 Kyle, TX F 19.9
Savoy Fire Department Savoy, IL F 19.8
City of Ramsey - Fire Department Ramsey, MN F 19.8
City Of Sacramento-Support Services Roll-Up (120014) Sacramento, CA F 19.7
Chillicothe Community Fire Protection District Chillicothe, IL F 19.7
1301 Fulton Fire Protection District Fulton, IL F 19.6
Montgomery and Countryside Fire Protection District Montgomery, IL F 19.6
Fire Department Shelby Township, MI F 19.5
Southern Region : Bdu San Bernardino, CA F 19.5
Cloquet Area Fire District - Station 1 Cloquet, MN F 19.4
Fire #14 1560 Indust. Road Salt Lake City, UT F 19.4
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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.