Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · North Carolina

Franklin Police Department

Franklin, NC · ~23 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Franklin Police Department runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade D.

Franklin Police Department: 5.9 TCR = 183% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Franklin Police Department safety composite

Franklin Police Department scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% 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

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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%).

Franklin Police Department held a steady TCR band

Franklin Police Department's TCR held near 0.2 from 6.0 in 2022 to 5.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 6.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=6.0 · 2023=5.8 · 2024=5.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Franklin, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 183% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #16/49
  • PHOTO NN Police Dept.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~23 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: NN Police Dept. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Franklin Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Franklin Police Department averages 5.9 TCR (183% 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

Franklin Police Department TCR series: 2022=6 · 2023=5.8 · 2024=5.8 · BLS 3.2

Where Franklin Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #16 safest of 49 Police departments (except Ame employers in North Carolina.

Franklin Police Department (23 employees, TCR 5.9) 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 Franklin Police Department
Franklin Police Department (23 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Franklin Police Department has fewer employees than the Police departments (except American Indi 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 5.8 0.0 1 0 0
2023 5.8 5.8 1 0 0
2022 6.0 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · NC · Franklin

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 34 employers in Franklin, NC · 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 NN Police Dept. 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kane County Sheriff's Office/Adult Justice Center 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Marengo - 02PD 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Farm 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOUTHERN PINES 1 SOW -EST 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cotton Gin 23 FTE
STATE-SIZE Monroe Growout 23 FTE
CITY-NEAR Macon County, NC 540 FTE
CITY-NEAR MH Angel Medical Center, LLLP 341 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1217 279 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1217 252 FTE
NAT-TCR Pikes Peak of Houston 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Regency at Waterford 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Mason Industries Inc 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Borton Orchards 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Big Sandy Superstore (06) 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Sandy Superstore (36) 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE LMMM Houston #37, LTD 23 FTE
NAT-SIZE Town of Industry 23 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. 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.