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

Shelton Police Department

Shelton, CT · ~80 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shelton Police Department runs at 370% 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.

Shelton Police Department: 11.8 TCR = 370% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shelton Police Department safety composite

Shelton Police Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 11.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 5.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

−4.7

2016→2024

Shelton Police Department injury rate improved

Shelton Police Department's TCR fell 4.7 from 13.8 in 2016 to 9.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 24.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.44× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=13.8 · 2017=8.0 · 2018=8.3 · 2019=18.3 · 2020=24.6 · 2021=10.6 · 2022=9.0 · 2023=5.0 · 2024=9.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Shelton, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.8 · 370% of ind

  • DART 5.2 DART
  • RANK #49/94
  • PHOTO City of Elmhurst - P…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 71 inj
  • SIZE ~80 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Elmhurst - Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shelton Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shelton Police Department averages 11.8 TCR (370% 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

Shelton Police Department TCR series: 2016=13.8 · 2017=8 · 2018=8.3 · 2019=18.3 · 2020=24.6 · 2021=10.6 · 2022=9 · 2023=5 · 2024=9.1 · BLS 3.2

Where Shelton Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 36% 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 #49 safest of 94 Police departments (except Ame employers in Connecticut.

Shelton Police Department (80 employees, TCR 11.8) 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 Shelton Police Department
Shelton Police Department (80 employees, TCR 11.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Shelton Police Department has fewer 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
2024 9.1 5.2 6 1 0
2023 5.0 5.0 4 0 0
2022 9.0 6.5 7 0 0
2021 10.6 9.3 8 0 0
2020 24.6 20.2 10 7 0
2019 18.3 7.0 13 0 0
2018 8.3 5.5 6 0 0
2017 8.0 1.3 6 0 0
2016 13.8 8.5 11 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · CT · Shelton

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 · 111 employers in Shelton, 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 City of Elmhurst - Police Department 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Grosse Pointe Park - Public Safety 11.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CPD-8th District Police Station | 3420 W. 63rd St. 11.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Wethersfield - Police Department 11.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE TT Trade Group LLC dba Powr2 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE D22 Hartford 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tower Laboratories Ltd. 80 FTE
STATE-SIZE Collins Jewell Company,Inc. 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR AffinEco, LLC 1,740 FTE
CITY-NEAR SMG 1,487 FTE
CITY-NEAR SSC, Inc. 820 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation US CT Shelton Far Mill Crossng (5223) 655 FTE
NAT-TCR XAB 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bullseye Glass Company 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Ward Trucking LLC-Winchester 11.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Merchant Demolition 11.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Miller Insulation Williston Branch 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Morningstar Children and Family Services 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Associated Constructors Company, Inc. 80 FTE
NAT-SIZE Radix Wire & Cable - GW 80 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.