Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · Virginia

NN Police Dept.

Newport News, VA · ~579 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

NN Police Dept. runs at 184% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade D.

NN Police Dept.: 5.9 TCR = 184% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

NN Police Dept. safety composite

NN Police Dept. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 47%), 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

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 5.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

−2.0

2017→2018

NN Police Dept. injury rate improved

NN Police Dept.'s TCR fell 2.0 from 6.9 in 2017 to 4.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=6.9 · 2018=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 5.9 · 184% of ind

  • DART 4.5 DART
  • RANK #12/39
  • PHOTO Franklin Police Depa…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 73 inj
  • SIZE ~579 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Franklin Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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NN Police Dept. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows NN Police Dept. averages 5.9 TCR (184% 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

NN Police Dept. TCR series: 2017=6.9 · 2018=4.9 · BLS 3.2

Where NN Police Dept. falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 74% 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 #12 safest of 39 Police departments (except Ame employers in Virginia.

NN Police Dept. (579 employees, TCR 5.9) 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 NN Police Dept.
NN Police Dept. (579 employees, TCR 5.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

NN Police Dept. has more 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
2018 4.9 4.5 37 0 0
2017 6.9 6.9 36 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · VA · Newport News

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) 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 Franklin Police Department 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kane County Sheriff's Office/Adult Justice Center 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Marengo - 02PD 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 5.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE TeleWorld Solutions 579 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pfg Westcreek (Corporate) - 0999 579 FTE
STATE-SIZE Daikin Applied Americas 580 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2636-VIRGINIA.HERNDON 578 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 Freeport McMoRan Refinery 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR JX Peterbilt - Wadsworth 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR NSK19 - North Sky - Olympia 5.9 TCR
NAT-TCR TriMet Center Street Operations Headquarters 5.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mesa (Azmes) 579 FTE
NAT-SIZE Supervalu Distribution Center - Pittsburgh 32111 579 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1855-MIDET34 579 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alside Window Company - Southeast 579 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: 2018, 2017. 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.