Coroners' offices · Connecticut

Office of the Chief Medical Examiner

Farmington, CT · ~65 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Office of the Chief Medical Examiner runs at 157% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Coroners' offices workplace, earning a grade D.

Office of the Chief Medical Examiner: 5.0 TCR = 157% of Coroners' offices BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Office of the Chief Medical Examiner safety composite

Office of the Chief Medical Examiner scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

−5.9

2019→2020

Office of the Chief Medical Examiner injury rate improved

Office of the Chief Medical Examiner's TCR fell 5.9 from 8.0 in 2019 to 2.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 8.0 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=8.0 · 2020=2.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 923120 · Farmington, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.0 · 157% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #9/10
  • PHOTO Guilford County Publ…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~65 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Guilford County Public Health - High Point (0.1 TCR gap)

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Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Office of the Chief Medical Examiner averages 5.0 TCR (157% of the Coroners' offices BLS benchmark).

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

Office of the Chief Medical Examiner TCR series: 2019=8 · 2020=2.1 · BLS 3.2

Where Office of the Chief Medical Examiner falls in its industry

267 Coroners' offices establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 10 Coroners' offices employers in Connecticut.

Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (65 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 02004006008001,000 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Office of the Chief Medical Examiner
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (65 employees, TCR 5.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Office of the Chief Medical Examiner has fewer employees than the Coroners' offices median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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
2020 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2019 8.0 4.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

923120 · CT · Farmington

267 Coroners' offices employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 93 employers in Farmington, CT · 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 Guilford County Public Health - High Point 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR San Joaquin County Public Health 4.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carlisle Building 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Human Services Agency 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Connecticut 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Acranom Masonry Enterprises 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE Automated Building Systems, Inc. CT Office 65 FTE
STATE-SIZE RRSC Bridgeport 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR UConn Health Center 5,466 FTE
CITY-NEAR UTC Corporate Office Farmington Campus 1,192 FTE
CITY-NEAR UTC Corporate Offices 1,138 FTE
CITY-NEAR TRUMPF Inc. 826 FTE
NAT-TCR Glassmere Fuel Service/Smith Propane/Shortway - Curtisville 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Nortrax Bangor 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 1227 - South Indianapolis in Whse 5.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Penny Lane Main Facility 5.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sequim 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stoever-Parker Electric, Inc. 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE I85 Db 65 FTE
NAT-SIZE Axion Structural Innovations LLC - TX 65 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: 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.