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

Police Department

Colchester, CT · ~12 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Police Department runs at 278% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade F.

Police Department: 8.9 TCR = 278% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Police Department safety composite

Police Department scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 8.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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: 0.0 → 27.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 27.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Police Department's TCR rose 27.9 from 0.0 in 2017 to 27.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Colchester, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.9 · 278% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #31/94
  • PHOTO Office of Field Oper…
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~12 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Office of Field Operations - Laredo (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 8.9 TCR (278% 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: 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=14.6 · 2020=9.2 · 2021=10.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=27.9 · BLS 3.2

Where Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 94 Police departments (except Ame employers in Connecticut.

Police Department (12 employees, TCR 8.9) 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Police Department
Police Department (12 employees, TCR 8.9) 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
2024 27.9 0.0 5 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 10.5 0.0 2 0 0
2020 9.2 9.2 2 0 0
2019 14.6 0.0 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · CT · Colchester

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 22 employers in Colchester, CT · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Office of Field Operations - Laredo 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Village of Westmont Police Department 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Brookfield - Police 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE NEW BRITAIN STORE 12 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stamford Office (0753) 12 FTE
STATE-SIZE Chester Ambulance 12 FTE
STATE-SIZE CHR- Oak Street 12 FTE
CITY-NEAR S&S Worldwide 231 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Caring Community of CT., Inc. 176 FTE
CITY-NEAR STOP & SHOP 100608 168 FTE
CITY-NEAR 100608 161 FTE
NAT-TCR Gagri - Griffin 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Kypik - Pikeville 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Advanced Entertainment Technology 8.9 TCR
NAT-TCR True North Equipment Grafton 8.9 TCR

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: 2024, 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.