Curbs and street gutters, highway, road and street, construction · Connecticut

Public Works Department

Fairfield, CT · ~86 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Public Works Department runs at 313% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Curbs and street gutters, highway, road and street, construction workplace, earning a grade F.

Public Works Department: 8.8 TCR = 313% of Curbs and street gutters, highway, road and street, construction BLS 2.8 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Public Works Department safety composite

Public Works Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 12%), 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 8.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 12% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

−0.8

2016→2017

Public Works Department injury rate improved

Public Works Department's TCR fell 0.8 from 9.2 in 2016 to 8.4 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.2 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.2 · 2017=8.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · Fairfield, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 313% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #33/71
  • PHOTO Public Works
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~86 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Public Works (0.0 TCR gap)

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Public Works Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Public Works Department averages 8.8 TCR (313% of the Curbs and street gutters, highway, road and street, construction BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Public Works Department TCR series: 2016=9.2 · 2017=8.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Public Works Department falls in its industry

4,078 Curbs and street gutters, high establishments

Safer than 12% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 71 Curbs and street gutters, high employers in Connecticut.

Public Works Department (86 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Public Works Department
Public Works Department (86 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Public Works Department has more employees than the Curbs and street gutters, highway, road median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 8.4 4.8 7 0 0
2016 9.2 7.1 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · CT · Fairfield

4,078 Curbs and street gutters, highway, road and street, construction employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 63 employers in Fairfield, 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 Public Works 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Accomac AHQ 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR G T Paving 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scottsbluff East Region 8.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Norwalk Elec 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Administration 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6450_14974 86 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rand-Whitney Containerboard L.P. 86 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairfield Board of Education 1,670 FTE
CITY-NEAR 10317 Fairfield 266 FTE
CITY-NEAR Orthopaedic Specialty Group, P.C. 219 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ludlowe Center for health & rehab 206 FTE
NAT-TCR Rai Crew Pit 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cranbury Hib (Njsbr) 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Knoxville Distribution Center 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR MaineGeneral Medical Center - 107 First Park 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and R of Eldon Inc 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100533 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE Historic Tours of America, Inc. - Corporate 86 FTE
NAT-SIZE FDC St. Louis 86 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.