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

Police Department

Richmond, VA · ~821 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.1
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Police Department runs at 316% 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: 10.1 TCR = 316% 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 35%), 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

44/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 10.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

−5.2

2016→2017

Police Department injury rate improved

Police Department's TCR fell 5.2 from 12.7 in 2016 to 7.5 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 12.7 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=12.7 · 2017=7.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Richmond, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 10.1 · 316% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #27/39
  • PHOTO Police Department
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 168 inj
  • SIZE ~821 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 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 10.1 TCR (316% 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=12.7 · 2017=7.5 · BLS 3.2

Where Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #27 safest of 39 Police departments (except Ame employers in Virginia.

Police Department (821 employees, TCR 10.1) 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 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Police Department
Police Department (821 employees, TCR 10.1) 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
2017 7.5 5.9 65 4 0
2016 12.7 6.7 103 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · VA · Richmond

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 939 employers in Richmond, VA · 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 Police Department 10.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tucson Police Department 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blount County Sheriff's Office 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CPD-22nd District Police Station | 1900 W. Monterey Ave. 10.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hampton Roads Sanitation District 821 FTE
STATE-SIZE Howmet - Hampton Castings 821 FTE
STATE-SIZE Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority - Washington Dulles International Airport 818 FTE
STATE-SIZE Virginia Department of Taxation 824 FTE
CITY-NEAR VCU Health System 14,536 FTE
CITY-NEAR Virginia Commonwealth University 11,826 FTE
CITY-NEAR VCU 5,271 FTE
CITY-NEAR CJW Medical Center 3,259 FTE
NAT-TCR 0378 - Houston-Federal, Tx 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mid-West Roofing Company 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Rock Island (Ilroc) 10.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Orlando Block 10.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Olive Branch 1 821 FTE
NAT-SIZE Continental Structural Plastics 821 FTE
NAT-SIZE Syracuse (Ny79) 821 FTE
NAT-SIZE 036370-West Valley Az P&Dc 821 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: 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.