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

Kent Volunteer Fire Department

Kent, CT · ~14 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kent Volunteer Fire Department runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) workplace, earning a grade C.

Kent Volunteer Fire Department: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kent Volunteer Fire Department safety composite

Kent Volunteer Fire Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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

83/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% 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

Kent Volunteer Fire Department: 133.3 → 160.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 160.0 TCR

Kent Volunteer Fire Department's TCR rose 26.7 from 133.3 in 2019 to 160.0 in 2024.

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Kent, CT AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #0/113
  • PHOTO Fire Department
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~14 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Department (0.2 TCR gap)

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Kent Volunteer Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kent Volunteer Fire Department averages 0.0 TCR (0% 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

Kent Volunteer Fire Department TCR series: 2019=133.3 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=80 · 2024=160 · BLS 3.2

Where Kent Volunteer Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 100% 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 #0 safest of 113 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Connecticut.

Kent Volunteer Fire Department (14 employees, TCR 0.0) 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 Kent Volunteer Fire Department
Kent Volunteer Fire Department (14 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Kent Volunteer Fire Department has fewer employees than the Fire departments (e.g., government, volu median and a lower 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 160.0 0.0 2 0 0
2022 80.0 0.0 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 133.3 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · CT · Kent

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 · 3 employers in Kent, CT · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR HEADQUARTERS : 1300 U Street Building 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR HEADQUARTERS : State Fire Marshal 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Willmar - Fire Station 0.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Water Pollution Control Facility 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water Pollution 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE BLOOMFIELD CT OFFICE 14 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rain CII Carbon - Stamford 14 FTE
CITY-NEAR High Watch Recovery Center 162 FTE
CITY-NEAR Town of Kent - Volunteer Fire Department 15 FTE
NAT-TCR Cedar Bay Entertainment LLC 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Cardinal Health 7000 and 7200 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR One Federal Street 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Fremont - Community Support Includes Recreation and Human Services 0.0 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.