Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground · Connecticut

Stratford EMS Department

Stratford, CT · ~140 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.8
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Stratford EMS Department runs at 107% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground workplace, earning a grade C.

Stratford EMS Department: 4.1 TCR = 107% of Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground BLS 3.8 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Stratford EMS Department safety composite

Stratford EMS Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 78% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 40%), 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)
B 4.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 78% of industry peers

DART rate
D 6.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

Stratford EMS Department: 2.8 → 9.0 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 9.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.48× in 2021

Stratford EMS Department's TCR rose 6.2 from 2.8 in 2017 to 9.0 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 621910 · Stratford, CT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 4.1 · 107% of ind

  • DART 6.0 DART
  • RANK #6/32
  • PHOTO Lubbock Aid Ambulance
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~140 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lubbock Aid Ambulance (0.0 TCR gap)

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Stratford EMS Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Stratford EMS Department averages 4.1 TCR (107% of the Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground BLS benchmark).

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

Stratford EMS Department TCR series: 2017=2.8 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=2.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=9 · BLS 3.8

Where Stratford EMS Department falls in its industry

976 Emergency medical transportati establishments

Safer than 78% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 8.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 32 Emergency medical transportati employers in Connecticut.

Stratford EMS Department (140 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3 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 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Stratford EMS Department
Stratford EMS Department (140 employees, TCR 4.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 8.3

Stratford EMS Department has more employees than the Emergency medical transportation service median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 8.3. 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
2021 9.0 6.0 2 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.9 0.0 1 0 0
2018 5.7 5.7 2 0 0
2017 2.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

621910 · CT · Stratford

976 Emergency medical transportation services, air or ground employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 119 employers in Stratford, 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 Lubbock Aid Ambulance 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Golden Cross Ambulance Inc 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR MedStat EMS Operations 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lackawaxen Township Volunteer Ambulance Service 4.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE B W Bishop & Sons Inc 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paul Dinto Electrical Contractors, Inc. 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Domino's SCC- Connecticut 140 FTE
STATE-SIZE Galasso Materials LLC. 140 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation US CT Stratford Main St (5225) 6,906 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation US CT Stratford 6900 Main St (5225) 6,665 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northeast Medical Group, Inc. 2,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northeast Medical Group - New Haven 1,612 FTE
NAT-TCR 054158-La Mesa Po 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 113082-Fmy-Downtown Sta 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 117637-Pom-Coconut Creek Br 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Shippensburg, PA (WC USX SHP) 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kohler Company-Saukville 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE 568830-Mil-West Milwaukee Br 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Village at Penn State 140 FTE
NAT-SIZE 99 Ranch Market, #76 140 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: 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.