Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · North Carolina

Police Department

Durham, NC · ~623 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.2
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Police Department runs at 351% 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: 11.2 TCR = 351% 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 total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 11.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
D 4.4 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

−27.0

2016→2024

Police Department injury rate improved

Police Department's TCR fell 27.0 from 35.9 in 2016 to 8.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 35.9 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=35.9 · 2017=11.8 · 2018=10.7 · 2019=7.6 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=6.0 · 2022=7.2 · 2023=8.2 · 2024=8.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Durham, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.2 · 351% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK #39/49
  • PHOTO Town of Waterford Po…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 532 inj
  • SIZE ~623 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Town of Waterford 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 11.2 TCR (351% 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=35.9 · 2017=11.8 · 2018=10.7 · 2019=7.6 · 2020=4.8 · 2021=6 · 2022=7.2 · 2023=8.2 · 2024=8.8 · BLS 3.2

Where Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #39 safest of 49 Police departments (except Ame employers in North Carolina.

Police Department (623 employees, TCR 11.2) 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Police Department
Police Department (623 employees, TCR 11.2) 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 8.8 4.4 44 0 0
2023 8.2 3.1 42 0 0
2022 7.2 2.3 38 0 0
2021 6.0 2.8 34 0 0
2020 4.8 2.9 30 0 0
2019 7.6 5.1 45 0 0
2018 10.7 7.9 60 0 0
2017 11.8 7.3 65 0 0
2016 35.9 21.9 174 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · NC · Durham

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 530 employers in Durham, NC · 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 Town of Waterford Police Department 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charles County Sheriff's Office 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ILLINOIS PUBLIC RISK FUND 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police 11.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE US Foods Raleigh 623 FTE
STATE-SIZE John H. Baker, Jr., Public Safety Center 623 FTE
STATE-SIZE Meritor Fletcher 622 FTE
STATE-SIZE Maiden Upholstery Division 624 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University 23,871 FTE
CITY-NEAR Duke University Hospital 11,048 FTE
CITY-NEAR BCBSNC Telecommuters 3,033 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wolfspeed - Durham, NC 3,013 FTE
NAT-TCR Clearvista Lake 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Milestone Construction LLC 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Natural Beauty Growers, LLC - Sioux Falls SD 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Global Metal Recycling, Inc. 11.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sargent Manufacturing 623 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. 623 FTE
NAT-SIZE Unlimited Care, Inc. Poughkeepsie, NY 623 FTE
NAT-SIZE Enersys 623 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.