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

Police Department

Christianburg, VA · ~61 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Police Department runs at 167% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade D.

Police Department: 5.3 TCR = 167% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Police Department safety composite

Police Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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

71/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 5.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% 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

Police Department: 2.7 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 9.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.25× in 2021

Police Department's TCR rose 2.7 from 2.7 in 2016 to 5.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 9.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Christianburg, VA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.3 · 167% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #9/39
  • PHOTO Police Department
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Police Department averages 5.3 TCR (167% 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

Police Department TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2017=5.2 · 2018=5.1 · 2019=4 · 2020=9.6 · 2021=5.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 78% 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 #9 safest of 39 Police departments (except Ame employers in Virginia.

Police Department (61 employees, TCR 5.3) 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Police Department
Police Department (61 employees, TCR 5.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Police Department has fewer 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
2021 5.4 1.3 2 2 0
2020 9.6 0.0 0 1 0
2019 4.0 4.0 3 0 0
2018 5.1 5.1 2 0 0
2017 5.2 5.2 1 0 0
2016 2.7 1.3 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · VA · Christianburg

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 · 4 employers in Christianburg, 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 Police Department 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Knox County Sheriff 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Fairfax Police Department 5.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE PGEC HQ 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE D.R. Horton, Inc. - Southern Virginia 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Polu Kai Services - Falls Curch 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Location 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Public Works 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Lots #5109 Christianburg, VA 22 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Lots Store #5109 Christianburg, VA 20 FTE
NAT-TCR Koch foods of Chattanooga Feed Mill 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Wingate at Harwich 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Harris Rebar Nufab - Orlando Florida 5.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Heritage Manor Healthcare Center 5.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Roth'S - Stayton 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cattlemens Selma 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Swan/Freedom #400 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE JJS Transportation & Distribution Co. Inc. 61 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.