Police, American Indian or Alaska Native tribal · Connecticut

Ridgefield Police Department

Ridgefield, CT · ~50 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.6
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ridgefield Police Department runs at 237% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police, American Indian or Alaska Native tribal workplace, earning a grade F.

Ridgefield Police Department: 7.6 TCR = 237% of Police, American Indian or Alaska Native tribal BLS 3.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ridgefield Police Department safety composite

Ridgefield Police Department scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 81% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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)
F 7.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
B 1.28 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

Ridgefield Police Department: 2.2 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 16.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0.17× in 2024

Ridgefield Police Department's TCR rose 0.4 from 2.2 in 2016 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 16.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.17× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921150 · Ridgefield, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.6 · 237% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK P8
  • PHOTO Colusa Indian Commun…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Colusa Indian Community Council (1.0 TCR gap)

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Ridgefield Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ridgefield Police Department averages 7.6 TCR (237% of the Police, American Indian or Alaska Native tribal BLS benchmark).

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

Ridgefield Police Department TCR series: 2016=2.2 · 2017=8.3 · 2018=16.6 · 2019=6.2 · 2020=10.4 · 2021=5.8 · 2022=7.7 · 2023=8.5 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.2

Where Ridgefield Police Department falls in its industry

13 Police, American Indian or Ala establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Ridgefield Police Department (50 employees, TCR 7.6) among 8 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 3.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Yavapai-Apache NationMississippi Band of Choctaw IndiansAroostook Band of MicmacsElk Valley RancheriaColusa Indian Community CouncilGoldbelt Inc - AKMPTN Gov'tDoyon, Limited - FairbanksRidgefield Police Department
Ridgefield Police Department (50 employees, TCR 7.6) among 8 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 88 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Ridgefield Police Department has fewer employees than the Police, American Indian or Alaska Native median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 2.6 1.3 2 0 0
2023 8.5 2.1 4 0 0
2022 7.7 7.7 4 0 0
2021 5.8 5.8 3 0 0
2020 10.4 8.3 4 1 0
2019 6.2 2.1 3 0 0
2018 16.6 4.2 8 0 0
2017 8.3 4.2 4 0 0
2016 2.2 2.2 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921150 · CT · Ridgefield

13 Police, American Indian or Alaska Native tribal employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 36 employers in Ridgefield, 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 Colusa Indian Community Council 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yavapai-Apache Nation 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elk Valley Rancheria 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE LeafGuard of Connecticut 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Fence and Guardrail 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE CT32 AMETEK SMP WALLINGFORD 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advanced Performance Glass, Inc. 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR BI Pharmaceuticals/BI USA 5,067 FTE
CITY-NEAR Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceutics Inc. 4,620 FTE
CITY-NEAR RVNA 256 FTE
CITY-NEAR RVNAhealth 254 FTE
NAT-TCR The Windsor of San Pablo 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR UPMC Altoona 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Rubber Company 7.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookdale Oklahoma City Southwest 7.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Marlboro 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Clark Electric 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE San Antonio Location 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dallas Distribution Center 50 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, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.