Fire and rescue service · Connecticut

Guilford Fire Department

Guilford, CT · ~56 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Guilford Fire Department runs at 583% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire and rescue service workplace, earning a grade F.

Guilford Fire Department: 18.6 TCR = 583% of Fire and rescue service BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Guilford Fire Department safety composite

Guilford Fire Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Guilford Fire Department: 21.9 → 23.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 25.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.37× in 2022

Guilford Fire Department's TCR rose 1.2 from 21.9 in 2017 to 23.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 25.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.37× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 18.6 · 583% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK #93/113
  • PHOTO City of Michigan Cit…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Michigan City - Fire Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Guilford Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Guilford Fire Department averages 18.6 TCR (583% of the Fire and rescue service BLS benchmark).

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

Guilford Fire Department TCR series: 2017=21.9 · 2018=20.6 · 2019=7.6 · 2020=13.1 · 2021=25.5 · 2022=23.1 · BLS 3.2

Where Guilford Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Fire and rescue service establishments

Safer than 15% 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 #93 safest of 113 Fire and rescue service employers in Connecticut.

Guilford Fire Department (56 employees, TCR 18.6) 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 Guilford Fire Department
Guilford Fire Department (56 employees, TCR 18.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Guilford Fire Department has more employees than the Fire and rescue service 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
2022 23.1 6.9 8 2 0
2021 25.5 9.3 7 4 0
2020 13.1 2.2 6 0 0
2019 7.6 0.0 2 3 0
2018 20.6 9.2 7 2 0
2017 21.9 2.7 4 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · CT · Guilford

793 Fire and rescue service employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 41 employers in Guilford, 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 City of Michigan City - Fire Department 18.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CyFair Volunteer Fire Department 18.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR SOUTHERN REGION : TUU 18.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mt. Morris Fire Protection District 18.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Morganti Group Inc CT 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carlin Contracting Co., Inc. 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE New England Yankee Construction, LLC 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Longhini Sausage 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR VNACHC Guilford 331 FTE
CITY-NEAR Home Care Plus, Inc. - Guilford 292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brook & Whittle, Ltd. - Guilford 207 FTE
CITY-NEAR B W Bishop & Sons Inc 140 FTE
NAT-TCR Ecumen Brooks 18.6 TCR
NAT-TCR FRHC - Spokane/INW 18.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CCAN - Middlefield 18.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Harris Door and Millwork 18.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Brunswick Nursing Home 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pyramid Baltimore Management LLC 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Samson Plant 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE ARB-ODFL 56 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.