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

Police

Manchester, CT · ~171 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.2
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Police runs at 349% 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: 11.2 TCR = 349% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Police safety composite

Police scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 11.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Police: 4.0 → 18.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 18.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.97× in 2023

Police's TCR rose 14.8 from 4.0 in 2019 to 18.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.97× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 11.2 · 349% of ind

  • DART 10.9 DART
  • RANK #45/94
  • PHOTO Town of Waterford Po…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 83 inj
  • SIZE ~171 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Town of Waterford Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Police in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Police averages 11.2 TCR (349% 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 TCR series: 2019=4 · 2020=8.5 · 2021=8.5 · 2022=16 · 2023=18.8 · BLS 3.2

Where Police falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 40% 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 #45 safest of 94 Police departments (except Ame employers in Connecticut.

Police (171 employees, TCR 11.2) 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
Police (171 employees, TCR 11.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Police 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
2023 18.8 10.9 23 3 0
2022 16.0 8.7 22 0 0
2021 8.5 5.2 18 0 0
2020 8.5 4.9 14 0 0
2019 4.0 4.0 6 0 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 Town of Waterford Police Department 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charles County Sheriff's Office 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR ILLINOIS PUBLIC RISK FUND 11.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 11.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE OKAY Berlin 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE Turbine Controls Inc. 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE BUDNEY OVERHAUL & REPAIR, LTD HEADQUARTERS 171 FTE
STATE-SIZE DATTCO - New Britain School Bus 171 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 Norway Manufacturing 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Doguet's Rice Milling Company 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Steel Systems Installation Inc 11.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Villas of Holly Brook - Streator 11.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE J. Josephson 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Slidematic Precision Components 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reno-Northtowne #017 171 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meridian Ms Plant 171 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.