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

Detroit Police Department

Detroit, MI · ~3,154 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Detroit Police Department runs at 314% 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.

Detroit Police Department: 10.1 TCR = 314% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Detroit Police Department safety composite

Detroit Police Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 46% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 4%), 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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 10.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 4% 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

Detroit Police Department: 8.5 → 11.6 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 11.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.85× in 2022

Detroit Police Department's TCR rose 3.1 from 8.5 in 2021 to 11.6 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Detroit, MI ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 314% of ind

  • DART 8.6 DART
  • RANK #12/33
  • PHOTO City of Manassas Pol…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 600 inj
  • SIZE ~3,154 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Manassas Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Detroit Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Detroit Police Department averages 10.1 TCR (314% 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

Detroit Police Department TCR series: 2021=8.5 · 2022=11.6 · BLS 3.2

Where Detroit Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 46% 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 #12 safest of 33 Police departments (except Ame employers in Michigan.

Detroit Police Department (3,154 employees, TCR 10.1) 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Detroit Police Department
Detroit Police Department (3,154 employees, TCR 10.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Detroit 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
2022 11.6 8.6 351 0 1
2021 8.5 4.9 249 42 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · MI · Detroit

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 673 employers in Detroit, 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 Manassas Police Department 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kingman Police Department 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saint Paul Police Narcotics 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 10.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE MIDET268 ASCENSION ST JOHN HOSP 3,126 FTE
STATE-SIZE Livonia Transmission Plant 3,122 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pfizer Kalamazoo - Portage Road 3,201 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charter County of Wayne Michigan 3,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henry Ford Hospital 8,838 FTE
CITY-NEAR Detroit Campus 8,632 FTE
CITY-NEAR Delta Air Lines - DTW 6,640 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Motors Corporation 5,241 FTE
NAT-TCR HCA Wesley Rehabilitation Hospital 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rhodes 175 - Mt. Auburn 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR NMC - Blaine North Clinic -Urgent Care 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rudolph Foods Dallas Plant 10.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - ACY1 3,155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Gaston Memorial Hospital, Incorporated d/b/a CaroMont Regional Medical Center 3,156 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sanofi Pasteur Swiftwater 3,151 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unity Hospital 3,158 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: 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.