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

Police Department

Wallingford, CT · ~98 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.7
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Police Department runs at 396% 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: 12.7 TCR = 396% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Police Department safety composite

Police Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

31/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.66 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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: 12.8 → 22.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 22.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2024

Police Department's TCR rose 9.6 from 12.8 in 2016 to 22.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 12.7 · 396% of ind

  • DART 9.9 DART
  • RANK #55/94
  • PHOTO Sterling Police Depa…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 94 inj
  • SIZE ~98 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Sterling Police Department (0.1 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 12.7 TCR (396% 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=12.8 · 2017=13.6 · 2018=17.4 · 2019=9 · 2020=12.4 · 2021=7.7 · 2022=9.6 · 2023=9.1 · 2024=22.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 31% 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 #55 safest of 94 Police departments (except Ame employers in Connecticut.

Police Department (98 employees, TCR 12.7) 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 (98 employees, TCR 12.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Police Department has more employees than the Police departments (except American Indi median and a higher 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 22.4 9.9 17 1 0
2023 9.1 6.8 8 0 0
2022 9.6 6.0 8 0 0
2021 7.7 3.9 6 0 0
2020 12.4 11.2 9 1 0
2019 9.0 6.7 8 0 0
2018 17.4 11.6 15 0 0
2017 13.6 1.1 12 0 0
2016 12.8 3.5 11 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · CT · Wallingford

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 · 136 employers in Wallingford, 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 Sterling Police Department 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Geneva Police Department 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cheshire Police 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR 012 Sheriff Office 12.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eversource - East Hampton 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bridgeport WWTP 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE CJ Fucci Construction 98 FTE
STATE-SIZE Berlin Steel - CT Office 98 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon Transportation Services : BDL5 1,386 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gaylord Hopital 986 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amazon.com Services LLC - BDL5 956 FTE
CITY-NEAR DDS South Region 606 FTE
NAT-TCR 191 Woodlawn Ave. 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Pittsboro Christian Village, Inc. 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Carmeco Inc. 12.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Custom Steel #1 12.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Leeda Northeast, Inc Ashtabula 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE PEMC - Hillsborough 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bose Yuma 98 FTE
NAT-SIZE Land of Lincoln Goodwill Wabash Store 98 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 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.