Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) · Connecticut

Fire Department

Unionville, CT · ~19 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
28.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Fire Department runs at 883% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) workplace, earning a grade F.

Fire Department: 28.3 TCR = 883% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Fire Department safety composite

Fire Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

16/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 28.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 18.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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

Fire Department: 18.2 → 47.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 47.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.67× in 2024

Fire Department's TCR rose 29.2 from 18.2 in 2022 to 47.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.67× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Unionville, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 28.3 · 883% of ind

  • DART 18.9 DART
  • RANK #112/113
  • PHOTO Station 5-1 EMS
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Station 5-1 EMS (0.3 TCR gap)

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Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Fire Department averages 28.3 TCR (883% of the Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS benchmark).

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

Fire Department TCR series: 2022=18.2 · 2023=19.2 · 2024=47.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #112 safest of 113 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Connecticut.

Fire Department (19 employees, TCR 28.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Fire Department
Fire Department (19 employees, TCR 28.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Fire Department has fewer employees than the Fire departments (e.g., government, volu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.8. 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 47.4 18.9 3 2 0
2023 19.2 0.0 2 0 0
2022 18.2 9.1 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · CT · Unionville

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 7 employers in Unionville, CT · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Station 5-1 EMS 28.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of New Haven - FIRE 105 Fountain Street 27.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR NORTHERN REGION : MEU 27.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eugene/Springfield - Fire Station 5 27.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Waterford 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE City Of Meriden Water Pollution 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Babbidge 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water & Sewer - Charter Oak 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Police Department 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Horizons Village 49 FTE
CITY-NEAR Recreation Department 47 FTE
CITY-NEAR 088364-UNIONVILLE PO 25 FTE
NAT-TCR Hyatt Place Sacramento/Roseville 28.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Los Angeles Police Department, Harbor Division 28.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Allure Lake Storey LLC 28.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Saybrook Landing 28.3 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: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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