Housing police, government · Virginia

Newport News Police Department

Newport News, VA · ~623 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Newport News Police Department runs at 259% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Housing police, government workplace, earning a grade F.

Newport News Police Department: 8.3 TCR = 259% of Housing police, government BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Newport News Police Department safety composite

Newport News Police Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 4%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 8.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 26% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 4% 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

−1.8

2020→2022

Newport News Police Department injury rate improved

Newport News Police Department's TCR fell 1.8 from 9.0 in 2020 to 7.2 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.85× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=9.0 · 2021=8.7 · 2022=7.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Newport News, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.3 · 259% of ind

  • DART 7.1 DART
  • RANK #23/39
  • PHOTO Fayette County Sheri…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 134 inj
  • SIZE ~623 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fayette County Sheriff's Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Newport News Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Newport News Police Department averages 8.3 TCR (259% of the Housing police, government BLS benchmark).

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

Newport News Police Department TCR series: 2020=9 · 2021=8.7 · 2022=7.2 · BLS 3.2

Where Newport News Police Department falls in its industry

716 Housing police, government establishments

Safer than 56% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #23 safest of 39 Housing police, government employers in Virginia.

Newport News Police Department (623 employees, TCR 8.3) 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Newport News Police Department
Newport News Police Department (623 employees, TCR 8.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Newport News Police Department has more employees than the Housing police, government 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
2022 7.2 7.1 46 0 0
2021 8.7 7.1 52 4 0
2020 9.0 8.9 36 30 1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · VA · Newport News

716 Housing police, government employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 330 employers in Newport News, VA · 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 Fayette County Sheriff's Office 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Kittery Police Department 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saint Paul Police Emergency Communication Center 8.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR South Carolina Department of Public Safety - Highway Patrol 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Universal Logistics of Virginia, LLC - Corporate - 9690 625 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2576-07585601-5601 621 FTE
STATE-SIZE William A. Hazel, Inc 618 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fauquier Health 618 FTE
CITY-NEAR Newport News Shipbuilding - Division of Huntington Ingalls Industries 24,543 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Regional Medical Center 2,563 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverside Regional Medical Center-113 1,680 FTE
CITY-NEAR 12490 Jefferson Ave 1,503 FTE
NAT-TCR Savannah 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mazda Toyota Manufacturing, U.S.A., Inc. 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Alternative Energy Systems 8.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-SWY-0017-0017-00250 8.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Institutes of Applied Human Dynamics Inc 623 FTE
NAT-SIZE IRNHTXAB - AT&T Services, Inc. 623 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lincoln Terminal-NON DOT 623 FTE
NAT-SIZE Joint Township District Memorial Hospital 623 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. 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.