Police Protection · Virginia

Sheriff and Jail

Norfolk, VA · ~400 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sheriff and Jail runs at 251% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police Protection workplace, earning a grade F.

Sheriff and Jail: 8.0 TCR = 251% of Police Protection BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sheriff and Jail safety composite

Sheriff and Jail scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 62% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 53%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 8.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
C 2.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 62% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Sheriff and Jail: 6.8 → 9.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.36× in 2024

Sheriff and Jail's TCR rose 2.4 from 6.8 in 2023 to 9.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.36× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Norfolk, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 251% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #21/39
  • PHOTO COW-Police Department
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 56 inj
  • SIZE ~400 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: COW-Police Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sheriff and Jail in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sheriff and Jail averages 8.0 TCR (251% of the Police Protection BLS benchmark).

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

Sheriff and Jail TCR series: 2023=6.8 · 2024=9.2 · BLS 3.2

Where Sheriff and Jail falls in its industry

716 Police Protection establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #21 safest of 39 Police Protection employers in Virginia.

Sheriff and Jail (400 employees, TCR 8.0) 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 Sheriff and Jail
Sheriff and Jail (400 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Sheriff and Jail has more employees than the Police Protection median and a lower 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 9.2 2.9 32 0 0
2023 6.8 4.0 24 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · VA · Norfolk

716 Police Protection employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 473 employers in Norfolk, VA · 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 COW-Police Department 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR York County Sheriff Office 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crete Police Department 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sheriff Biscailuz Training/Intelligence Facility 8.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE WM 2038 400 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1406 400 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northern Virginia Community College - Woodbridge 400 FTE
STATE-SIZE Virginia Institute of Marine Science 400 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sentara Norfolk General Hospital 4,863 FTE
CITY-NEAR Childrens Hospital of The Kings Dau 3,707 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Atlantic Group dba DZ Atlantic 3,248 FTE
CITY-NEAR Norfolk State University 2,981 FTE
NAT-TCR Perillo 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Seminole Trusses Inc. 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wabur - Burlington 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 5086 Mccalla Rdc 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Crawford Memorial Hospital 400 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lutheran Home 400 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nyhen - Henrietta 400 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lee's Summit Medical Center 400 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.