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

City of Charleston - Police Department

Charleston, IL · ~36 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Charleston - Police Department runs at 331% 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.

City of Charleston - Police Department: 10.6 TCR = 331% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Charleston - Police Department safety composite

City of Charleston - Police Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 10.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% 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%).

City of Charleston - Police Department held a steady TCR band

City of Charleston - Police Department's TCR held near 0.1 from 10.0 in 2020 to 9.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 15.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=10.0 · 2021=11.4 · 2022=15.7 · 2023=6.0 · 2024=9.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Charleston, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.6 · 331% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #71/110
  • PHOTO Bedford County Sheri…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bedford County Sheriff's Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Charleston - Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Charleston - Police Department averages 10.6 TCR (331% 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

City of Charleston - Police Department TCR series: 2020=10 · 2021=11.4 · 2022=15.7 · 2023=6 · 2024=9.8 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Charleston - Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #71 safest of 110 Police departments (except Ame employers in Illinois.

City of Charleston - Police Department (36 employees, TCR 10.6) 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 City of Charleston - Police Department
City of Charleston - Police Department (36 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

City of Charleston - Police Department has fewer 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 9.8 4.9 4 0 0
2023 6.0 0.0 2 0 0
2022 15.7 6.3 5 0 0
2021 11.4 2.9 2 2 0
2020 10.0 3.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · IL · Charleston

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 41 employers in Charleston, IL · 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 Bedford County Sheriff's Department 10.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jackson County Sheriff 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR SCS Police Department 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR OCSD SAFE Division - Brad Gates Office 10.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Illinois Foundation Seed Inc- Harvard 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHI Greenhouse LLC 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE MT ERIE COMPLEX -EST 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Malta 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastern Illinois University 2,096 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charleston CUSD #1 360 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 612 300 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastern Illinois Area of Special Education 267 FTE
NAT-TCR Rutherford Regional Medical Center 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ocala Oaks Rehabilitation Center 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR La Cosecha Food Service, LLC 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Grand Rapids Metaltek Inc. 10.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Haviland, Building 1 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bloomfield Manufacturing Co., Inc. 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Statewide Aquastore, Inc. 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rutan Poly Industries 36 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.