City Government - Police Protection
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KNOXVILLE, TN | Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native)
~535 avg employees | 7 years of OSHA data
City Government - Police Protection has an average TCR of 10.8, which is 338% of the industry average (3.2) for Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native). This is significantly worse than average.
Safety Insights for City Government - Police Protection
City Government - Police Protection operates an establishment with approximately 535 full-time equivalent workers in KNOXVILLE, TN, classified under the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) industry (NAICS 922120). Across 7 years of mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reporting, this employer has accumulated 282 recordable injuries, 82 occupational illnesses, and 1 workplace fatality. The average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 10.8 injuries per 100 full-time workers per year provides the anchor metric for the F letter grade (Failing Safety Record).
Benchmarked against the Bureau of Labor Statistics industry average of 3.2 for Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native), City Government - Police Protection's workforce experiences 338% of the typical injury burden. This ratio matters because TCR already normalizes for hours worked — a 200,000-hour exposure base equals roughly 100 full-time workers — so establishments with very different headcounts can be compared directly. A TCR above the benchmark flags a higher-than-typical risk profile for jobseekers, insurers, and enforcement agencies to examine.
Multi-year trend analysis is the single most reliable signal here: a one-year spike could reflect a single severe event, whereas sustained elevation across 7 reporting cycles points to systemic hazard exposure. Readers evaluating City Government - Police Protection as an employer, contractor, investment, or regulatory target should examine the yearly DART rate (days away, restricted, or transferred), the fatality count of 1, and any year-over-year deterioration shown in the table below. All figures come directly from employer-submitted OSHA Form 300A summaries — there is no modeling, estimation, or third-party adjustment layered on top of the government data.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
All injury, illness, and fatality figures on this page are sourced from City Government - Police Protection's own mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source — name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor — OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 922120 — Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native).
DART Rate — Transparent Calculation (2024)
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
28 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 985,776 hours worked = 5.68 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904 — OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context — Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| City Government - Police Protection (this establishment) | 10.81 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 7-year avg |
| Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) industry avg | 3.20 | BLS IIF, NAICS 922120 |
| Tennessee state avg (all industries) | 19.26 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics — Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by City Government - Police Protection to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 62 reportable incidents · 58 injuries, 3 illnesses, 1 fatality — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 49 reportable incidents · 45 injuries, 4 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 59 reportable incidents · 30 injuries, 29 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 59 reportable incidents · 41 injuries, 18 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 47 reportable incidents · 32 injuries, 15 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 36 reportable incidents · 28 injuries, 8 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2016: 53 reportable incidents · 48 injuries, 5 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) — inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12.4 | 5.7 | 58 | 3 | 1 |
| 2023 | 9.9 | 5.9 | 45 | 4 | 0 |
| 2022 | 11.8 | 9.0 | 30 | 29 | 0 |
| 2021 | 11.5 | 7.8 | 41 | 18 | 0 |
| 2020 | 9.3 | 7.2 | 32 | 15 | 0 |
| 2019 | 7.0 | 3.1 | 28 | 8 | 0 |
| 2016 | 13.8 | 8.3 | 48 | 5 | 0 |
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