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

Fire Protection

New Britain, CT · ~132 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
22.2
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities

The verdict

Fire Protection runs at 693% 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.

F
Failing Safety Record
22.2
avg TCR · per 100 workers
3.2
industry benchmark (BLS)
183
recordable injuries tracked

Grade compares Fire Protection's OSHA Total Case Rate of 22.2 to the Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS benchmark of 3.2 (693% of benchmark) across 9 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.

Injury rate over time

Fire Protection's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.2 industry benchmark.

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Total Case Rate (recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers), OSHA ITA Form 300A. Industry benchmark: BLS IIF, NAICS 922160.

Where Fire Protection falls in its industry

1,057 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 7% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #130 safest of 144 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Connecticut.

Trend analysis for Fire Protection

Between 2016 and 2024, Fire Protection's Total Case Rate improved from 22.6 to 19.7 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 13% decrease across 8 years of OSHA reporting.

The safest year on record was 2022, at a TCR of 19.0, while 2023 saw the highest rate, at 29.6, a spread of 10.6 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 9 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.

Summed across those 9 reporting years, Fire Protection recorded 183 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 9-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.

Verify This Employer with OSHA

The 183 injuries, 100 illnesses shown on this page for Fire Protection are sourced from its own 9 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.

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Source: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 922160 - Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)).

DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)

What is the DART rate formula?

DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.

9 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 283,634 hours worked = 6.35 DART

Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping

Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State

Benchmark TCR Source
Fire Protection (this establishment) 22.18 OSHA ITA Form 300A, 9-year avg
Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) industry avg 3.20 BLS IIF, NAICS 922160
Connecticut state avg (all industries) 6.15 OSHA ITA, state-level rollup

Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program

Reportable Incident Timeline

Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Fire Protection to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.

Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 19.7 6.3 21 7 0
2023 29.6 8.5 33 9 0
2022 19.0 4.9 17 10 0
2021 20.4 9.2 14 15 0
2020 25.4 15.5 19 17 0
2019 20.5 8.5 23 6 0
2018 19.8 7.8 19 9 0
2017 22.6 9.2 18 14 0
2016 22.6 6.3 19 13 0

What this grade means for you

Use this grade as a relative read on Fire Protection's reported OSHA injury record versus its Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) peers, not a verdict on whether any single site is safe today.

  • At 693% of the Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) benchmark, Fire Protection reports more injuries than typical peers, ask specifically how the employer is reducing them. Know your rights
  • Judge this record against the wider Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
  • Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another

Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is Fire Protection's safety grade?
Fire Protection has a safety grade of F (Failing Safety Record). This grade is based on their average Total Case Rate (TCR) of 22.2 compared to the BLS industry benchmark of 3.2 for Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)).
How many injuries has Fire Protection reported?
Fire Protection has reported 183 total injuries and 0 fatalities across 9 years of OSHA data (2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016). This data comes from mandatory OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA) reports.

Similar Employers

Matched by safety record across the industry, by workforce size within Connecticut, and by nearby establishments in New Britain - a different peer set than the category browse links below.

Similar TCR (~22.2)

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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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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. Retrieved and formatted by PlainSafetyScore Editorial

Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.