Transit police · District of Columbia

Metro Transit Police Department District 1

Washington, DC · ~127 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Metro Transit Police Department District 1 runs at 531% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Transit police workplace, earning a grade F.

Metro Transit Police Department District 1: 17.0 TCR = 531% of Transit police BLS 3.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Metro Transit Police Department District 1 safety composite

Metro Transit Police Department District 1 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 16.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Metro Transit Police Department District 1: 7.7 → 19.1 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 20.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.84× in 2022

Metro Transit Police Department District 1's TCR rose 11.5 from 7.7 in 2016 to 19.1 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 20.2 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.84× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Washington, DC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 17.0 · 531% of ind

  • DART 14.3 DART
  • RANK P14
  • PHOTO CPD-6th District Pol…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 130 inj
  • SIZE ~127 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CPD-6th District Police Station | 7808 S. Halsted St. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Metro Transit Police Department District 1 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Metro Transit Police Department District 1 averages 17.0 TCR (531% of the Transit police BLS benchmark).

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

Metro Transit Police Department District 1 TCR series: 2016=7.7 · 2017=20.2 · 2018=17.4 · 2019=17.6 · 2020=17.8 · 2021=19.2 · 2022=19.1 · BLS 3.2

Where Metro Transit Police Department District 1 falls in its industry

716 Transit police establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Metro Transit Police Department District 1 (127 employees, TCR 17.0) 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 Metro Transit Police Department District 1
Metro Transit Police Department District 1 (127 employees, TCR 17.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Metro Transit Police Department District 1 has more employees than the Transit police median and a higher 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
2022 19.1 14.3 19 1 0
2021 19.2 16.3 20 0 0
2020 17.8 15.8 18 0 0
2019 17.6 13.2 19 1 0
2018 17.4 13.2 20 1 0
2017 20.2 16.2 23 2 0
2016 7.7 3.8 11 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · DC · Washington

716 Transit police employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 793 rated employers in District of Columbia with headcount on file · 748 employers in Washington, DC · 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 CPD-6th District Police Station | 7808 S. Halsted St. 17.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saint Paul Police Citywide Services 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR CCFC Police/OEM 17.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Calhoun County Law Enforcement 17.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eulen Aviation DCA Station 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE SODEXO AT U. S. HOUSE FOOD SERVICE OPERATION 127 FTE
STATE-SIZE General Atomics - GWD01 126 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5472-SWY 0035 2737 128 FTE
CITY-NEAR Children's National Medical Center 7,153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medstar Washington Hospital Center 7,073 FTE
CITY-NEAR Medstar Georgetown University Hospital 4,771 FTE
CITY-NEAR Customs and Border Protection - Headquarters 3,601 FTE
NAT-TCR 4054-ABS-0017-0016-01971 17.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Grocers #106 17.0 TCR
NAT-TCR EGE Eagle County Regional Airport 17.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Houston IAH- RAC 17.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE GVL-ODFL 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Latham, NY 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE Oakdale Rehabilitiation and Skilled Nursing Center 127 FTE
NAT-SIZE PSSI - 0304 Claxton Poultry Farms Inc. 127 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, 2016. 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.