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

Police Department

Name: Police Department Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Decatur, IL · ~152 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 10.8
Avg TCR: 3.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Police Department runs at 337% 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: 10.8 TCR = 337% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 4y 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 16%), 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).

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 10.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers
DART rate: F 9.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

−3.3

2020→2023

Police Department injury rate improved

Police Department's TCR fell 3.3 from 13.4 in 2020 to 10.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 13.4 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=13.4 · 2021=6.5 · 2022=13.1 · 2023=10.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Decatur, IL ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.8 · 337% of ind

DART 9.4 DART
RANK #72/110
PHOTO Police (5100)
BOOK 4y book
INJ 49 inj
SIZE ~152 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Police (5100) (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Police Department averages 10.8 TCR (337% of the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS benchmark).

Police Department TCR series: 2020=13.4 · 2021=6.5 · 2022=13.1 · 2023=10.1 · BLS 3.2

Where Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 42% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #72 safest of 110 Police departments (except Ame employers in Illinois.

Police Department (152 employees, TCR 10.8) 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
2023	10.1	9.4	14	0
2022	13.1	7.3	18	0
2021	6.5	2.9	8	1
2020	13.4	9.9	9	10

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · IL · Decatur

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 219 employers in Decatur, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Police (5100)	STATESVILLE, NC	10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Town of Woodbridge Police Department	WOODBRIDGE, CT	10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	City Government - Police Protection	KNOXVILLE, TN	10.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Police Department	DARIEN, CT	10.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Kole Construction Company of Lemont, Inc.	ROMEOVILLE	152 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Raymundos Food Group	BEDFORD PARK	152 FTE
STATE-SIZE	GEHC : Arlington Heights IL, PDx	ARLINGTON HEIGHTS	152 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Gates Rubber Co Galesburg	GALESBURG	152 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Decatur Facility	Decatur	2,420 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Decatur Memorial Hospital	Decatur	1,982 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Decatur Public School District No. 61	Decatur	1,524 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Corporate Staff Offices	Decatur	1,198 FTE
NAT-TCR	Vallarta Supermarkets #5	Northridge, CA	10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	American Red Cross - 29 S Stockwell Rd	Evansville, IN	10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bloomer Healthcare, LLC	Bloomer, WI	10.8 TCR
NAT-TCR	R. A. Yancey Lumber Corp.	Crozet, VA	10.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Fluid Connectors : Albion	Albion, IN	152 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Wick Buildings Inc	Mazomanie, WI	152 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Happy Valley #009	Happy Valley, OR	152 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Nampa-Caldwell Blvd #011	Nampa, ID	152 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. 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.