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

City of Norwich: Police Department

Norwich, CT · ~104 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Norwich: Police Department runs at 602% 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 Norwich: Police Department: 19.3 TCR = 602% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Norwich: Police Department safety composite

City of Norwich: Police Department scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
C 3.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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 Norwich: Police Department: 15.2 → 18.7 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 33.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.18× in 2024

City of Norwich: Police Department's TCR rose 3.5 from 15.2 in 2019 to 18.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 33.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Norwich, CT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 19.3 · 602% of ind

  • DART 3.5 DART
  • RANK #89/94
  • PHOTO San Diego Police Dep…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 94 inj
  • SIZE ~104 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: San Diego Police Department - Headquarters (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Norwich: Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Norwich: Police Department averages 19.3 TCR (602% 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 Norwich: Police Department TCR series: 2019=15.2 · 2020=21.7 · 2021=33.2 · 2022=10.4 · 2023=16.5 · 2024=18.7 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Norwich: Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #89 safest of 94 Police departments (except Ame employers in Connecticut.

City of Norwich: Police Department (104 employees, TCR 19.3) 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 Norwich: Police Department
City of Norwich: Police Department (104 employees, TCR 19.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

City of Norwich: Police Department 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 18.7 3.5 16 0 0
2023 16.5 8.3 14 0 0
2022 10.4 4.2 10 0 0
2021 33.2 24.4 22 12 0
2020 21.7 14.8 18 4 0
2019 15.2 5.1 14 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · CT · Norwich

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) 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 San Diego Police Department - Headquarters 19.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sheriff's Office - Operations 19.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Siskiyou County Sheriffs Office 19.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Oak Brook - Police Dept 19.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE BHD/JV Charter Oak Bridge 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ralph Camputaro and Son Excavating, Inc. 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE BRANCH - CT - Connecticut Central 104 FTE
STATE-SIZE Earthlight Main 104 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 PSL-Sun City West 19.3 TCR
NAT-TCR True World Foods Chicago, LLC 19.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Caritas Management Corporation 19.3 TCR
NAT-TCR SSA Pacific - Twin Harbors 19.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sodexo at Jackson North Hospital 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE P&S Transportation Wichita Falls, TX 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE 44 - Scranton Dc 104 FTE
NAT-SIZE Aero Construction 104 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.