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

Kensington Vol Fire Department

Berlin, CT · ~19 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
25.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kensington Vol Fire Department runs at 781% 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.

Kensington Vol Fire Department: 25.0 TCR = 781% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kensington Vol Fire Department safety composite

Kensington Vol Fire Department scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 25 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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

Kensington Vol Fire Department: 0.0 → 50.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 50.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Kensington Vol Fire Department's TCR rose 50.0 from 0.0 in 2023 to 50.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 25.0 · 781% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #109/113
  • PHOTO Fire Volunteer
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~19 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Volunteer (0.1 TCR gap)

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Kensington Vol Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kensington Vol Fire Department averages 25.0 TCR (781% of the Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS benchmark).

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

Kensington Vol Fire Department TCR series: 2023=0 · 2024=50 · BLS 3.2

Where Kensington Vol Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 2% 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 #109 safest of 113 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Connecticut.

Kensington Vol Fire Department (19 employees, TCR 25.0) 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 Kensington Vol Fire Department
Kensington Vol Fire Department (19 employees, TCR 25.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Kensington Vol Fire Department has fewer employees than the Fire departments (e.g., government, volu 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
2024 50.0 0.0 1 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · CT · Berlin

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 71 employers in Berlin, CT · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Fire Volunteer 24.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR NORTHERN REGION : SCU 25.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Station 1 24.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR SOUTHERN REGION : RRU 25.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Waterford 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE City Of Meriden Water Pollution 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Babbidge 19 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water & Sewer - Charter Oak 19 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eversource - Berlin 1,244 FTE
CITY-NEAR 12121 485 FTE
CITY-NEAR 222 New Park Dr 469 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corbin Russwin 337 FTE
NAT-TCR 262 Tacoma 25.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Police Department 25.0 TCR
NAT-TCR C2 Enterprises, Inc. 25.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Niemco Inc 25.0 TCR

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. 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.