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

Police Department, Derby, Connecticut

Derby, CT · ~39 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.4
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Police Department, Derby, Connecticut runs at 326% 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, Derby, Connecticut: 10.4 TCR = 326% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Police Department, Derby, Connecticut safety composite

Police Department, Derby, Connecticut scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 28%), 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).

D

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 10.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 28% 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

−7.2

2016→2018

Police Department, Derby, Connecticut injury rate improved

Police Department, Derby, Connecticut's TCR fell 7.2 from 14.0 in 2016 to 6.8 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 59.9 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=14.0 · 2017=59.9 · 2018=6.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 10.4 · 326% of ind

  • DART 6.8 DART
  • RANK #40/94
  • PHOTO City of Ames - Ames …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Ames - Ames Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Police Department, Derby, Connecticut in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Police Department, Derby, Connecticut averages 10.4 TCR (326% 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, Derby, Connecticut TCR series: 2016=14 · 2017=59.9 · 2018=6.8 · BLS 3.2

Where Police Department, Derby, Connecticut falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 44% 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 #40 safest of 94 Police departments (except Ame employers in Connecticut.

Police Department, Derby, Connecticut (39 employees, TCR 10.4) 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, Derby, Connecticut
Police Department, Derby, Connecticut (39 employees, TCR 10.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Police Department, Derby, Connecticut has fewer 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
2018 6.8 6.8 2 0 0
2017 59.9 59.9 4 0 0
2016 14.0 11.2 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · CT · Derby

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 · 33 employers in Derby, 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 City of Ames - Ames Police Department 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR LVMPD - Convention Center Area Command 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police 10.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of East Hampton - Police 10.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Water pollution control authority 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE AJ WASTE SYSTEMS LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE yrc 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE CEF CT 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Griffin Hospital 1,811 FTE
CITY-NEAR Derby Shoprite 209 FTE
CITY-NEAR Derby Fire Department 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Y Foods, Inc. Derby 141 FTE
NAT-TCR Goodwill Industries of El Paso Inc./ Lee Trevino 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Valu Home Center #43 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0005 2810 10.4 TCR
NAT-TCR McGill Hose 10.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Chevron Co-Generating Plant 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Coast Service Center 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mountain Laurel Resort 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sales - Kona 39 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: 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.