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

Police Department

Manchester, CT · ~180 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Police Department runs at 283% 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: 9.0 TCR = 283% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 3y 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 34%), 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 9.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% 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

−5.8

2016→2018

Police Department injury rate improved

Police Department's TCR fell 5.8 from 13.7 in 2016 to 7.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 13.7 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.66× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=13.7 · 2017=5.5 · 2018=7.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Manchester, CT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 283% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #34/94
  • PHOTO Los Angeles Police D…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~180 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Valley (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 9.0 TCR (283% 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=13.7 · 2017=5.5 · 2018=7.9 · BLS 3.2

Where Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 52% 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 #34 safest of 94 Police departments (except Ame employers in Connecticut.

Police Department (180 employees, TCR 9.0) 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 (180 employees, TCR 9.0) 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 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
2018 7.9 6.0 9 3 0
2017 5.5 4.8 7 1 0
2016 13.7 10.3 18 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · CT · Manchester

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 · 145 employers in Manchester, 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 Los Angeles Police Department, Communications Division Valley 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Office of Field Operations - El Paso 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR TCSO Pixley Sub-Station 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE E-J Electric T&D LLC 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Otis Elevator Company- OECF Bristol Research Center 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE Polamer Precision - Main 180 FTE
STATE-SIZE CAMBRIDGE HEALTH & REHABILITATION CENTER 180 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manchester Memorial Hospital 1,652 FTE
CITY-NEAR 235 MANCHESTER CT 412 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1891 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR Home Office 381 FTE
NAT-TCR Artesia General Hospital 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Greendale Forest Nursing & Rehab 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Champion 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale La Crosse 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Erie 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE 60-Philadelphia Terminal 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Gadsden 180 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shippers Products 180 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.