Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · New Jersey

Hillsborough Township Police Department

Hillsborough, NJ · ~70 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hillsborough Township Police Department runs at 244% 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.

Hillsborough Township Police Department: 7.8 TCR = 244% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hillsborough Township Police Department safety composite

Hillsborough Township Police Department scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 65% 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 7.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.4

2021→2023

Hillsborough Township Police Department injury rate improved

Hillsborough Township Police Department's TCR fell 8.4 from 11.0 in 2021 to 2.6 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 11.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=11.0 · 2022=9.8 · 2023=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Hillsborough, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.8 · 244% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #7/9
  • PHOTO Police Department
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hillsborough Township Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Hillsborough Township Police Department averages 7.8 TCR (244% 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

Hillsborough Township Police Department TCR series: 2021=11 · 2022=9.8 · 2023=2.6 · BLS 3.2

Where Hillsborough Township Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 9 Police departments (except Ame employers in New Jersey.

Hillsborough Township Police Department (70 employees, TCR 7.8) 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 Hillsborough Township Police Department
Hillsborough Township Police Department (70 employees, TCR 7.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Hillsborough Township 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
2023 2.6 2.6 1 1 0
2022 9.8 8.4 0 7 0
2021 11.0 11.0 0 8 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · NJ · Hillsborough

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 48 employers in Hillsborough, NJ · 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 Department 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pennington County LEC/Justice Center 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CPD-Homan Square | 3340 W. Fillmore St. 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Clayton-Police Department 7.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Noble Construction Group, LLC 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rutherford - Rooney 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE TriStruX 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE CLINE_Rahway, NJ 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eastern Janitorial Services 692 FTE
CITY-NEAR Landscape Maintenance Services, Inc. 364 FTE
CITY-NEAR RB Manufacturing LLC 286 FTE
CITY-NEAR Shop Rite of Hillsborough 282 FTE
NAT-TCR Hendry Regional Medical Center 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR T & P Farms, LP 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Tigard #023 7.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Primex Farms 7.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Florida School Book Depository 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tri-City United High School 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hart Street Warehouse 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Metrix Company 70 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: 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.