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

Police Department

Norwich, CT · ~111 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Police Department runs at 188% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade D.

Police Department: 6.0 TCR = 188% 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 total case rate (tcr) (safer than 73% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

C

64/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 6 per 100 workers

Safer than 73% of industry peers

DART rate
C 3.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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

−1.3

2016→2018

Police Department injury rate improved

Police Department's TCR fell 1.3 from 6.3 in 2016 to 5.1 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 6.6 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.3 · 2017=6.6 · 2018=5.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 188% of ind

  • DART 3.0 DART
  • RANK #14/94
  • PHOTO Oxford Police
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~111 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Oxford Police (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 6.0 TCR (188% 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=6.3 · 2017=6.6 · 2018=5.1 · BLS 3.2

Where Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 73% 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 #14 safest of 94 Police departments (except Ame employers in Connecticut.

Police Department (111 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 (111 employees, TCR 6.0) 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 5.1 3.0 5 0 0
2017 6.6 6.6 7 0 0
2016 6.3 6.3 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · CT · Norwich

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 · 63 employers in Norwich, 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 Oxford Police 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Naperville Police Department 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hampton Police Division 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR The city Of Clarksville 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE John J Brennan Construction Co., Inc 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE BT Cromwell 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Nutmeg Container Corporation 111 FTE
STATE-SIZE Imperial Electronic Assemly, Inc. 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR BACKUS HOSPITAL 1,819 FTE
CITY-NEAR The William W Backus Hospital 1,604 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Arc Eastern Connecticut 467 FTE
CITY-NEAR SNE Southern New England 329 FTE
NAT-TCR Coastal Wipers Inc 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR PAM Specialty Hospital of Victoria North 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Save-A-Lot #23662 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR United Scientific Inc 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE OBE 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nurse on Call - Orlando 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Manchester Health Care Center 111 FTE
NAT-SIZE Preferred Compounding - Barberton 111 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.