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

Groton Town Police

Groton, CT · ~89 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Groton Town Police runs at 269% 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.

Groton Town Police: 8.6 TCR = 269% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Groton Town Police safety composite

Groton Town Police scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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).

D

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Groton Town Police: 3.5 → 8.3 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 30.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.61× in 2024

Groton Town Police's TCR rose 4.9 from 3.5 in 2016 to 8.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 30.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.61× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Groton, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.6 · 269% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #30/94
  • PHOTO Police - Uniforms Op…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Police - Uniforms Operation (0.0 TCR gap)

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Groton Town Police in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Groton Town Police averages 8.6 TCR (269% 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

Groton Town Police TCR series: 2016=3.5 · 2017=4.6 · 2018=7.1 · 2019=6.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=9 · 2022=30.4 · 2023=7.8 · 2024=8.3 · BLS 3.2

Where Groton Town Police falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 54% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 94 Police departments (except Ame employers in Connecticut.

Groton Town Police (89 employees, TCR 8.6) 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 Groton Town Police
Groton Town Police (89 employees, TCR 8.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Groton Town Police 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 8.3 5.2 8 0 0
2023 7.8 2.2 6 1 0
2022 30.4 18.8 9 12 0
2021 9.0 6.8 7 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 6.9 4.6 5 1 0
2018 7.1 3.5 5 1 0
2017 4.6 1.1 3 1 0
2016 3.5 3.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · CT · Groton

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 67 employers in Groton, CT · 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 Police - Uniforms Operation 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR PATROL HEADQUARTERS 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Carterville - FD 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR PO-POLICE 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Waters Construction Company, Inc. 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE MPH 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kim Industries Inc. 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE 021 - Naugatuck 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR Electric Boat, Groton, CT. 15,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Dynamics Electric Boat 12,075 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pfizer Inc 3,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Connecticut- Avery Point Campus 314 FTE
NAT-TCR Rocky Mountain Steel Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Bothe Associates Inc. 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Lyon Shipyard LLC 8.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Salt Lake City, UT 8.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Swedesboro 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE State Roofing Systems Inc 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bremer Manufacturing Company, Inc. 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE 991 Houston DC 89 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.