Employer · Alaska

Dept. of Public Safety (36)

Ketchikan, AK · ~19 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dept. of Public Safety (36) runs at 57% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade B.

Dept. of Public Safety (36): 1.8 TCR = 57% of industry BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dept. of Public Safety (36) safety composite

Dept. of Public Safety (36) scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 96% 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

84/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 1.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 96% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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

−5.5

2018→2023

Dept. of Public Safety (36) injury rate improved

Dept. of Public Safety (36)'s TCR fell 5.5 from 5.5 in 2018 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 5.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=5.5 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Ketchikan, AK AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.8 · 57% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #5/21
  • PHOTO Dept. of Public Safe…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dept. of Public Safety (5) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dept. of Public Safety (36) in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dept. of Public Safety (36) averages 1.8 TCR (57% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Dept. of Public Safety (36) TCR series: 2018=5.5 · 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.2

Where Dept. of Public Safety (36) falls in its industry

716 industry establishments

Safer than 96% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alaska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 21 industry employers in Alaska.

Dept. of Public Safety (36) (19 employees, TCR 1.8) 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 Dept. of Public Safety (36)
Dept. of Public Safety (36) (19 employees, TCR 1.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Dept. of Public Safety (36) has fewer employees than the industry 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 5.5 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · AK · Ketchikan

716 industry employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,558 rated employers in Alaska with headcount on file · 34 employers in Ketchikan, AK · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Dept. of Public Safety (5) 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Altoona- Police Department 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northville Forensic Laboratory 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR police 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bethel Housing - YKQCL 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turnagain Marine Construction Corp., AK 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Anchorage Office 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nome Office 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ketchikan Medical Center 488 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dept. of Transportation & Public Facilities (85) 389 FTE
CITY-NEAR Vigor Industrial 144 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2710 139 FTE
NAT-TCR Kuehne + Nagel Inc. (TPE-6612) 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR East New York 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Clearwing Productions, INC 1.8 TCR
NAT-TCR BrandSafway, LLC - Omaha Branch 1.8 TCR

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, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.