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

Police Department

Grand Rapids, MI · ~337 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Police Department runs at 487% 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: 15.6 TCR = 487% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 5y 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 10%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.62 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% 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

−12.6

2020→2024

Police Department injury rate improved

Police Department's TCR fell 12.6 from 27.6 in 2020 to 14.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 27.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.75× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=27.6 · 2021=14.2 · 2022=10.9 · 2023=10.3 · 2024=14.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Grand Rapids, MI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 15.6 · 487% of ind

  • DART 11.6 DART
  • RANK #30/33
  • PHOTO City of Bend - Polic…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 252 inj
  • SIZE ~337 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Bend - Police Dept (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 15.6 TCR (487% 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: 2020=27.6 · 2021=14.2 · 2022=10.9 · 2023=10.3 · 2024=14.9 · BLS 3.2

Where Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #30 safest of 33 Police departments (except Ame employers in Michigan.

Police Department (337 employees, TCR 15.6) 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 (337 employees, TCR 15.6) 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 14.9 11.6 53 1 0
2023 10.3 7.6 34 1 0
2022 10.9 10.0 36 1 0
2021 14.2 13.0 46 1 0
2020 27.6 24.9 83 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · MI · Grand Rapids

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 1,006 employers in Grand Rapids, MI · 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 Bend - Police Dept 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR TOWN OF ROCKY HILL - POLICE DEPARTMENT 15.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Los Angeles Police Department, Security Services Division 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR New Britain Police Department 15.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE C.A. Hull Co., Inc. 337 FTE
STATE-SIZE Magna Modular Systems LLC dba AIM Systems 337 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1928 337 FTE
STATE-SIZE 5159 337 FTE
CITY-NEAR SHHG-GR BUTTERWORTH CA 9,012 FTE
CITY-NEAR SH Butterworth Hospital 7,397 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mercy Health Saint Mary's Hospital-MH-MI 2,914 FTE
CITY-NEAR Steelcase - Grand Rapids / Kentwood 2,817 FTE
NAT-TCR Ayrshire Farm Management, LC 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Butcher Block, Inc. dba North Country Smokehouse 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Consolidated Glass 15.6 TCR
NAT-TCR CWS Recogido Municipio Toa Baja 15.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE KG Berry Farms LLC 337 FTE
NAT-SIZE M&M Nfw 337 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lakeside Book Company - Menasha 337 FTE
NAT-SIZE A. Folino Construction, Inc. 337 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.