General services departments, government · Connecticut

Animal Shelter

Branford, CT · ~15 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.1
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Animal Shelter runs at 502% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General services departments, government workplace, earning a grade F.

Animal Shelter: 16.1 TCR = 502% of General services departments, government BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Animal Shelter safety composite

Animal Shelter scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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).

F

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 13.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−20.1

2017→2023

Animal Shelter injury rate improved

Animal Shelter's TCR fell 20.1 from 33.7 in 2017 to 13.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 97.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=33.7 · 2018=16.0 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=16.9 · 2022=97.7 · 2023=13.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Branford, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.1 · 502% of ind

  • DART 13.6 DART
  • RANK #112/124
  • PHOTO Town of Westport
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~15 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Town of Westport (0.0 TCR gap)

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Animal Shelter in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Animal Shelter averages 16.1 TCR (502% of the General services departments, government BLS benchmark).

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

Animal Shelter TCR series: 2017=33.7 · 2018=16 · 2019=0 · 2020=16.9 · 2022=97.7 · 2023=13.6 · BLS 3.2

Where Animal Shelter falls in its industry

1,496 General services departments, establishments

Safer than 5% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #112 safest of 124 General services departments, employers in Connecticut.

Animal Shelter (15 employees, TCR 16.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Animal Shelter
Animal Shelter (15 employees, TCR 16.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Animal Shelter has fewer employees than the General services departments, government median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2023 13.6 13.6 1 0 0
2022 97.7 58.6 3 2 0
2020 16.9 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 16.0 0.0 1 0 0
2017 33.7 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · CT · Branford

1,496 General services departments, government employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 75 employers in Branford, CT · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Town of Westport 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1552 CITY OF CALUMET CITY 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Middlebury 16.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 16.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE SCL 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE WPCA 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tilson Technology Management, Inc. East Hartford 15 FTE
STATE-SIZE Town of Winchester Public Works 15 FTE
CITY-NEAR Branford Public Schools 577 FTE
CITY-NEAR Branford High School 244 FTE
CITY-NEAR CSC Enterprises, Incorporated d/b/a 221 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Connecticut Hospice 212 FTE
NAT-TCR Mountain View Mushrooms 16.1 TCR
NAT-TCR First Mile Square- Columbus 16.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Boreal Ridge Corporation 16.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 359040-Wellsville Po 16.1 TCR

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: 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.