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

City of Fairfax Police Department

Fairfax, VA · ~92 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.4
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Fairfax Police Department runs at 168% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade D.

City of Fairfax Police Department: 5.4 TCR = 168% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Fairfax Police Department safety composite

City of Fairfax Police Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 34%), 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).

C

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 5.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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%).

Rising injury rate

City of Fairfax Police Department: 4.7 → 8.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 8.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2024

City of Fairfax Police Department's TCR rose 3.3 from 4.7 in 2021 to 8.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Fairfax, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.4 · 168% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #10/39
  • PHOTO LVMPD - DSD - Clark …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~92 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LVMPD - DSD - Clark County Detention Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Fairfax Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Fairfax Police Department averages 5.4 TCR (168% 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 Fairfax Police Department TCR series: 2021=4.7 · 2022=1.2 · 2023=7.5 · 2024=8 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Fairfax Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 39 Police departments (except Ame employers in Virginia.

City of Fairfax Police Department (92 employees, TCR 5.4) 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 City of Fairfax Police Department
City of Fairfax Police Department (92 employees, TCR 5.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

City of Fairfax Police Department has fewer employees than the Police departments (except American Indi median and a lower 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 6.0 6 2 0
2023 7.5 7.5 7 0 0
2022 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2021 4.7 3.5 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · VA · Fairfax

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 226 employers in Fairfax, VA · 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 LVMPD - DSD - Clark County Detention Center 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Davis County Sheriffs and Corrections Complex 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knox County Sheriff 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Washington Police Department 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bowling Green 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Division of Water Product (CON-0224) 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maintenance and Operations Facility 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE BU 224 VIRGINIA PAVING COMPANY 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Inova Health System 2,608 FTE
CITY-NEAR Inova Physician Group 2,539 FTE
CITY-NEAR Inova Fair Oaks Hospital 1,153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern Virginia Community College - Annandale 870 FTE
NAT-TCR Shanty Creek Resort 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 11442 Danville 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR StoneBridge Cabot 5.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 30515 Capstone - Americold Hatfield Pa 5.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bozeman 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pencco Inc Vernon 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mead Clark Lumber Co - Main Store 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE O'Neal Manufacturing Services Louisville 92 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.