Police and fire departments, combined · Michigan

City of Portage - Department of Public Safety - Police Division

Portage, MI · ~77 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.2
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

City of Portage - Department of Public Safety - Police Division runs at 257% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police and fire departments, combined workplace, earning a grade F.

City of Portage - Department of Public Safety - Police Division: 8.2 TCR = 257% of Police and fire departments, combined BLS 3.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

City of Portage - Department of Public Safety - Police Division safety composite

City of Portage - Department of Public Safety - Police Division scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% 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).

C

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 8.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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%).

TCR Δ

−14.5

2016→2024

City of Portage - Department of Public Safety - Police Division injury rate improved

City of Portage - Department of Public Safety - Police Division's TCR fell 14.5 from 16.0 in 2016 to 1.5 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 16.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=16.0 · 2017=10.2 · 2018=7.0 · 2019=10.6 · 2020=5.1 · 2022=9.2 · 2023=6.1 · 2024=1.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Portage, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.2 · 257% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #8/33
  • PHOTO City of Harvard Poli…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 42 inj
  • SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Harvard Police Dept. (0.0 TCR gap)

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City of Portage - Department of Public Safety - Police Division in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows City of Portage - Department of Public Safety - Police Division averages 8.2 TCR (257% of the Police and fire departments, combined BLS benchmark).

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

City of Portage - Department of Public Safety - Police Division TCR series: 2016=16 · 2017=10.2 · 2018=7 · 2019=10.6 · 2020=5.1 · 2022=9.2 · 2023=6.1 · 2024=1.5 · BLS 3.2

Where City of Portage - Department of Public Safety - Police Division falls in its industry

716 Police and fire departments, c establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 33 Police and fire departments, c employers in Michigan.

City of Portage - Department of Public Safety - Police Division (77 employees, TCR 8.2) 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 Portage - Department of Public Safety - Police Division
City of Portage - Department of Public Safety - Police Division (77 employees, TCR 8.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

City of Portage - Department of Public Safety - Police Division has fewer employees than the Police and fire departments, combined 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 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2023 6.1 4.6 4 0 0
2022 9.2 7.7 6 0 0
2020 5.1 3.4 3 0 0
2019 10.6 3.0 6 1 0
2018 7.0 4.2 5 0 0
2017 10.2 7.3 6 1 0
2016 16.0 8.7 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · MI · Portage

716 Police and fire departments, combined employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 136 employers in Portage, MI · 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 City of Harvard Police Dept. 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR U.S. Border Patrol Sector - Swanton 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Dept 8.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rosemount City Hall/Police 8.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Chippewa County Road Commission 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE M&M Excavating Co., Inc. 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE Selge Construction Co., Inc. 77 FTE
STATE-SIZE C & R Electric - Main Office 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Instruments - 1941 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Medical 2,059 FTE
CITY-NEAR Summit Polymers, Inc. 1,619 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker Corporation Shared Services 768 FTE
NAT-TCR Jayhawk Plant 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Acme Machine & Welding Co LLC 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR LWA 8.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Alumni Roofing Lexington 8.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Aegis of Shadowridge 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raymon Enterprise, Inc. 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE Petra Construction Corp. 77 FTE
NAT-SIZE OctoChem, Inc. 77 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, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.