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

Police Department

Name: Police Department Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Orange, CT · ~49 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 9.5
Avg TCR: 3.2
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Police Department runs at 297% 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: 9.5 TCR = 297% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 2y 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 20%), 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).

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 9.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% of industry peers
DART rate: F 8.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

−2.3

2017→2018

Police Department injury rate improved

Police Department's TCR fell 2.3 from 10.7 in 2017 to 8.4 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 10.7 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.88× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=10.7 · 2018=8.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 9.5 · 297% of ind

DART 8.4 DART
RANK #35/94
PHOTO Madison County Sheri…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 9 inj
SIZE ~49 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Madison County Sheriff's Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Police Department averages 9.5 TCR (297% of the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS benchmark).

Police Department TCR series: 2017=10.7 · 2018=8.4 · BLS 3.2

Where Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 50% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #35 safest of 94 Police departments (except Ame employers in Connecticut.

Police Department (49 employees, TCR 9.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Police Department 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	8.4	8.4	4	0	0
2017	10.7	10.7	5	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · CT · Orange

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 · 60 employers in Orange, CT · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Madison County Sheriff's Department	EDWARDSVILLE, IL	9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	mohave_county_sheriff_office	KINGMAN, AZ	9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Police	PEORIA, AZ	9.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Public Safety	NEW BRIGHTON, MN	9.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Caldwell & Walsh Building Construction, Inc.	FAIRFIELD	49 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Highways/Roads - Operations	STAMFORD	49 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Public Works	SHELTON	49 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Highways & Bridges	SHELTON	49 FTE
CITY-NEAR	UIL/United Illuminating	Orange	877 FTE
CITY-NEAR	United Illuminating	Orange	689 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Southern Connecticut Gas Company-Orange	Orange	305 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Southern Connecticut Gas	Orange	301 FTE
NAT-TCR	Wire Form Division of Iowa	Washington, IA	9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Aurora Health and Rehabilitation Skilled Nursing and Long- Term Care	Columbus, MS	9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Oh Neo140	Brookly, OH	9.5 TCR
NAT-TCR	Delaware Distribution Center	Middletown, DE	9.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Supreme Rice Mermentau	Mermentau, LA	49 FTE
NAT-SIZE	NRG Energy - Bowline Generating Station	West Haverstraw, NY	49 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Bay Villa Healthcare Center	Bay City, TX	49 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Cloverleaf Cold Storage-Corporate	Sioux City, IA	49 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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