Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) · Connecticut

City of Norwich: East Great Plains Volunteer Fire Dept

Norwich, CT · ~58 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Norwich: East Great Plains Volunteer Fire Dept runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) workplace, earning a grade C.

City of Norwich: East Great Plains Volunteer Fire Dept: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Norwich: East Great Plains Volunteer Fire Dept safety composite

City of Norwich: East Great Plains Volunteer Fire Dept scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

B

83/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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 Norwich: East Great Plains Volunteer Fire Dept: 160.0 → 400.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 400.0 TCR

City of Norwich: East Great Plains Volunteer Fire Dept's TCR rose 240.0 from 160.0 in 2019 to 400.0 in 2024.

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Norwich, CT AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/113
  • PHOTO Fire Department
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~58 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Department (0.2 TCR gap)

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City of Norwich: East Great Plains Volunteer Fire Dept in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Norwich: East Great Plains Volunteer Fire Dept averages 0.0 TCR (0% of the Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS benchmark).

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

City of Norwich: East Great Plains Volunteer Fire Dept TCR series: 2019=160 · 2020=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=80 · 2024=400 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Norwich: East Great Plains Volunteer Fire Dept falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #0 safest of 113 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Connecticut.

City of Norwich: East Great Plains Volunteer Fire Dept (58 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8 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 City of Norwich: East Great Plains Volunteer Fire Dept
City of Norwich: East Great Plains Volunteer Fire Dept (58 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

City of Norwich: East Great Plains Volunteer Fire Dept has more employees than the Fire departments (e.g., government, volu median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.8. 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 400.0 0.0 5 0 0
2023 80.0 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 160.0 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · CT · Norwich

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 63 employers in Norwich, 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 Fire Department 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR HEADQUARTERS : 1300 U Street Building 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR HEADQUARTERS : State Fire Marshal 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Willmar - Fire Station 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Nations Roof of New England 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Brandford 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE STRAN Technologies IT Services, LLC 58 FTE
STATE-SIZE A&B Mechanical LLC 58 FTE
CITY-NEAR BACKUS HOSPITAL 1,819 FTE
CITY-NEAR The William W Backus Hospital 1,604 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Arc Eastern Connecticut 467 FTE
CITY-NEAR SNE Southern New England 329 FTE
NAT-TCR City of Fremont - Community Support Includes Recreation and Human Services 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR One Federal Street 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cardinal Health 7000 and 7200 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Rogers Group, Inc 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mesa - San Diego 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Erway Ambulance Service, Inc. 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aldea Green 58 FTE
NAT-SIZE AD Systems 58 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, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.