City of Norwich: Public Works
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NORWICH, CT | General services departments, government
~43 avg employees | 6 years of OSHA data
City of Norwich: Public Works has an average TCR of 18.1, which is 564% of the industry average (3.2) for General services departments, government. This is significantly worse than average.
Safety Insights for City of Norwich: Public Works
City of Norwich: Public Works operates an establishment with approximately 43 full-time equivalent workers in NORWICH, CT, classified under the General services departments, government industry (NAICS 921190). Across 6 years of mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reporting, this employer has accumulated 33 recordable injuries, 5 occupational illnesses, and 0 workplace fatalities. The average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 18.1 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 General services departments, government, City of Norwich: Public Works's workforce experiences 564% 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 6 reporting cycles points to systemic hazard exposure. Readers evaluating City of Norwich: Public Works as an employer, contractor, investment, or regulatory target should examine the yearly DART rate (days away, restricted, or transferred), the fatality count of 0, 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 of Norwich: Public Works'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 921190 — General services departments, government.
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.
1 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 74,372 hours worked = 2.69 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904 — OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context — Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| City of Norwich: Public Works (this establishment) | 18.05 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 6-year avg |
| Civil rights commissions industry avg | 3.20 | BLS IIF, NAICS 921190 |
| Connecticut state avg (all industries) | 205.44 | 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 of Norwich: Public Works 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: 5 reportable incidents · 5 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 8 reportable incidents · 8 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 7 reportable incidents · 7 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2021: 7 reportable incidents · 3 injuries, 4 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 8 reportable incidents · 7 injuries, 1 illnesses, 0 fatalities — OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2019: 3 reportable incidents · 3 injuries, 0 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 | 13.4 | 2.7 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 20.8 | 5.2 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 19.3 | 5.5 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 21.6 | 18.6 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 2020 | 24.3 | 6.1 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| 2019 | 8.8 | 2.9 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
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