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

Charles County Sheriff's Office

La Plata, MD · ~639 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.2
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Charles County Sheriff's Office runs at 350% 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.

Charles County Sheriff's Office: 11.2 TCR = 350% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Charles County Sheriff's Office safety composite

Charles County Sheriff's Office scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 40%), 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).

D

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 11.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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

−4.4

2017→2024

Charles County Sheriff's Office injury rate improved

Charles County Sheriff's Office's TCR fell 4.4 from 12.4 in 2017 to 8.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 18.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=12.4 · 2018=9.4 · 2019=9.2 · 2020=8.0 · 2021=18.0 · 2022=15.1 · 2023=9.5 · 2024=8.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · La Plata, MD ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.2 · 350% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO Town of Waterford Po…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 384 inj
  • SIZE ~639 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Town of Waterford Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Charles County Sheriff's Office in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Charles County Sheriff's Office averages 11.2 TCR (350% 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

Charles County Sheriff's Office TCR series: 2017=12.4 · 2018=9.4 · 2019=9.2 · 2020=8 · 2021=18 · 2022=15.1 · 2023=9.5 · 2024=8 · BLS 3.2

Where Charles County Sheriff's Office falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Maryland alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 9 Police departments (except Ame employers in Maryland.

Charles County Sheriff's Office (639 employees, TCR 11.2) 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Charles County Sheriff's Office
Charles County Sheriff's Office (639 employees, TCR 11.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Charles County Sheriff's Office 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 8.0 5.2 46 0 0
2023 9.5 6.5 51 3 0
2022 15.1 11.6 47 36 0
2021 18.0 16.2 45 45 0
2020 8.0 6.0 31 9 0
2019 9.2 6.3 46 8 0
2018 9.4 5.7 51 5 0
2017 12.4 8.1 67 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · MD · La Plata

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 26 employers in La Plata, MD · 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 Town of Waterford Police Department 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ILLINOIS PUBLIC RISK FUND 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 11.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE LINTHICUM_1441083 638 FTE
STATE-SIZE WASHINGTON NDC_1434471 637 FTE
STATE-SIZE Corporate Office 637 FTE
STATE-SIZE MO East - BETHESDA MD 636 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charles County Government 1,751 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Maryland Charles Regional Medical Center 756 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2853 307 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2853 282 FTE
NAT-TCR Town of Waterford Police Department 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Goldenwood Truss Corp. 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Jackson-Cook, Lc 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Trader Joe's 0694 Creve Coeur 11.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE ASCO Power Technologies 639 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kingston Technology, Inc. 639 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greenwich Terminals LLC 639 FTE
NAT-SIZE Titanium Metals Corporation - TIMET 639 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.