Coal dealers, direct selling · Connecticut

Rural Fuels

Trumbull, CT · ~40 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Rural Fuels runs at 96% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Coal dealers, direct selling workplace, earning a grade C.

Rural Fuels: 3.3 TCR = 96% of Coal dealers, direct selling BLS 3.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Rural Fuels safety composite

Rural Fuels scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 77% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 19%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 3.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 77% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Rural Fuels: 0.0 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 2.11× in 2020

Rural Fuels's TCR rose 6.9 from 0.0 in 2016 to 6.9 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 2.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 454310 · Trumbull, CT AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 96% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK #4/21
  • PHOTO Nevada City CA 205610
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nevada City CA 205610 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Rural Fuels in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Rural Fuels averages 3.3 TCR (96% of the Coal dealers, direct selling BLS benchmark).

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

Rural Fuels TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=6.8 · 2018=0 · 2019=2.6 · 2020=6.9 · BLS 3.4

Where Rural Fuels falls in its industry

366 Coal dealers, direct selling establishments

Safer than 77% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 21 Coal dealers, direct selling employers in Connecticut.

Rural Fuels (40 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 020406080100 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Rural Fuels
Rural Fuels (40 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1

Rural Fuels has more employees than the Coal dealers, direct selling median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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
2020 6.9 6.9 2 1 0
2019 2.6 2.6 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 6.8 6.8 3 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

454310 · CT · Trumbull

366 Coal dealers, direct selling employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 57 employers in Trumbull, 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 Nevada City CA 205610 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SUPERIOR PLUS - 3101 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kuhela 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woods Heating Service 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE FirstLight Power - CT 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Utility - Water Department 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE PBi 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Manufacturing Co., Inc. 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cooper Surgical, Inc- Trumbull 601 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trumbull 438 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation US CT Trumbull Quarry Rd 124 (5228) 426 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2361 - Trumbull West 256 FTE
NAT-TCR Waste Industries Nashville 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR New Standard Corporation - Rocky Mount Facility 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR DGS Aviation Services : SEA - Seattle 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Brian Center Health & Rehabilitation/Hickory East 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Courtyard Mesa Gateway Airport 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jacksonville (BP) 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Le Center Agronomy 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE National Fuel Distribution Clarence Servicenter 40 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.