Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · Connecticut

Bristol Police

Bristol, CT · ~146 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.4
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
2
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bristol Police runs at 576% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade F.

Bristol Police: 18.4 TCR = 576% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bristol Police safety composite

Bristol Police scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 30% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 2

Safer than 1% 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

Bristol Police: 7.8 → 15.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 35.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.36× in 2024

Bristol Police's TCR rose 7.4 from 7.8 in 2016 to 15.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 35.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Bristol, CT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 18.4 · 576% of ind

  • DART 6.6 DART
  • RANK #87/94
  • PHOTO San Joaquin County S…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 173 inj
  • SIZE ~146 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: San Joaquin County Sheriffs Department (0.1 TCR gap)

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Bristol Police in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bristol Police averages 18.4 TCR (576% of the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS benchmark).

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

Bristol Police TCR series: 2016=7.8 · 2017=10.4 · 2018=13.3 · 2019=15.7 · 2020=35 · 2021=22 · 2022=25.8 · 2023=20.7 · 2024=15.3 · BLS 3.2

Where Bristol Police falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #87 safest of 94 Police departments (except Ame employers in Connecticut.

Bristol Police (146 employees, TCR 18.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Bristol Police
Bristol Police (146 employees, TCR 18.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Bristol Police has more employees than the Police departments (except American Indi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.5. 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 15.3 6.6 23 0 0
2023 20.7 6.9 20 10 0
2022 25.8 7.0 33 4 2
2021 22.0 11.7 23 9 0
2020 35.0 19.2 27 24 0
2019 15.7 12.2 15 3 0
2018 13.3 7.6 12 2 0
2017 10.4 10.4 11 0 0
2016 7.8 3.5 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · CT · Bristol

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 95 employers in Bristol, CT · 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 San Joaquin County Sheriffs Department 18.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Mt. Vernon IL Police Department 18.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Edina - Police Department 18.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Genoa - Police Department 18.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE PHRG CT Sales & Marketing 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fabbrica LLC Jobsites 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE Unger Enterprises LLC 146 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Arthur G. Russell Company 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR ESPN Bristol Campus 3,688 FTE
CITY-NEAR ESPN Headquarters 3,607 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bristol Public Schoold 1,432 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bristol Hospital 1,370 FTE
NAT-TCR Madison Health and Rehabilitation Center 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR CAN018 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR The Peregrine Transportation 18.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hoven 18.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Florence 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Morristown, TN - Flexible Pkg - E012 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waterford Place Health Campus 146 FTE
NAT-SIZE Market Square Health Care Center 146 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.