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

City of Paducah - Police

Paducah, KY · ~84 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Paducah - Police runs at 120% 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 Paducah - Police: 3.9 TCR = 120% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Paducah - Police safety composite

City of Paducah - Police scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% 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 Paducah - Police: 4.1 → 6.1 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 6.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.32× in 2023

City of Paducah - Police's TCR rose 2.0 from 4.1 in 2021 to 6.1 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Paducah, KY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.9 · 120% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #3/10
  • PHOTO Cedar County Sheriff…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~84 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cedar County Sheriff's Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Paducah - Police in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Paducah - Police averages 3.9 TCR (120% 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 Paducah - Police TCR series: 2021=4.1 · 2022=1.4 · 2023=6.1 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Paducah - Police falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Kentucky alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 10 Police departments (except Ame employers in Kentucky.

City of Paducah - Police (84 employees, TCR 3.9) 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 Paducah - Police
City of Paducah - Police (84 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

City of Paducah - Police 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
2023 6.1 1.2 1 4 0
2022 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2021 4.1 2.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · KY · Paducah

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,805 rated employers in Kentucky with headcount on file · 198 employers in Paducah, KY · 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 Cedar County Sheriff's Office 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sheriff's Office 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR District 2 (Police) 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Dept. of Public Safety (23) 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Trade-Mark Industrial 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Arkema Inc. Louisville Plant 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE Daicel Safety Technologies America, Inc. 84 FTE
STATE-SIZE ATI Forged Products - Lebanon 84 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ingram barge Company 2,071 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Paducah Hospital 1,605 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Health Paducah 1,459 FTE
CITY-NEAR Baptist Heatlh Paducah 1,398 FTE
NAT-TCR Highland Park Market 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Ryan Iron Works, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Dulles, VA 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Colorado & Evans CE 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE HI-Lex Automotive Center (HAC) 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE WCR WCH (loc code: PHEOH1) 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE Industrial Ventilation, Inc. 84 FTE
NAT-SIZE M Argueso & Co dba Paramelt Muskegon 84 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: 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.