Pothole filling, highway, road, street or bridge · Connecticut

Public Works Department

New Milford, CT · ~60 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Public Works Department runs at 304% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pothole filling, highway, road, street or bridge workplace, earning a grade F.

Public Works Department: 8.5 TCR = 304% of Pothole filling, highway, road, street or bridge BLS 2.8 · 8y 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 13%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.51 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

−6.6

2017→2024

Public Works Department injury rate improved

Public Works Department's TCR fell 6.6 from 9.9 in 2017 to 3.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 22.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=9.9 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=8.9 · 2021=22.1 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=12.0 · 2024=3.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 237310 · New Milford, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.5 · 304% of ind

  • DART 3.4 DART
  • RANK #31/71
  • PHOTO Iowa Bridge & Culver…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 37 inj
  • SIZE ~60 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Iowa Bridge & Culvert, LC - IA (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 8.5 TCR (304% of the Pothole filling, highway, road, street or bridge BLS benchmark).

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

Public Works Department TCR series: 2017=9.9 · 2018=3.5 · 2019=4.9 · 2020=8.9 · 2021=22.1 · 2022=3.5 · 2023=12 · 2024=3.4 · BLS 2.8

Where Public Works Department falls in its industry

4,078 Pothole filling, highway, road establishments

Safer than 13% 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 #31 safest of 71 Pothole filling, highway, road employers in Connecticut.

Public Works Department (60 employees, TCR 8.5) 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 (60 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 69 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Public Works Department has fewer employees than the Pothole filling, highway, road, street o 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
2024 3.4 3.4 2 0 0
2023 12.0 10.3 7 0 0
2022 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2021 22.1 18.1 11 0 0
2020 8.9 7.1 5 0 0
2019 4.9 4.9 3 0 0
2018 3.5 3.5 2 0 0
2017 9.9 5.0 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

237310 · CT · New Milford

4,078 Pothole filling, highway, road, street or bridge employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 45 employers in New Milford, 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 Iowa Bridge & Culvert, LC - IA 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Besch and Smith Civil Group, Inc. 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR King County Local Services 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Bridge Company - 472310 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE MIRA-CSWS-POWER BLOCK FACILITY/JET TURBINE FACILITY 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Railroad Hill Street 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1100 60 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6448_15040 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Milford Day Program 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kimberly Clark 348 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kimberly-Clark Corporation 346 FTE
CITY-NEAR New Milford Hospital 239 FTE
NAT-TCR Groesbeck Stamping 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Transportation and Maintenance 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR S03881 - Allentown 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Lovell Wyoming Facility 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE F Salgado Labor 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE LifeServe Blood Center - Sioux City 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE Evans Construction 60 FTE
NAT-SIZE JAG Healthcare Marion 60 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.