Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · North Carolina

Town of Chapel Hill - Police Department

Chapel Hill, NC · ~159 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Town of Chapel Hill - Police Department runs at 307% 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.

Town of Chapel Hill - Police Department: 9.8 TCR = 307% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Town of Chapel Hill - Police Department safety composite

Town of Chapel Hill - Police Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 4%), 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).

F

33/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 9.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 19.2 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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

Town of Chapel Hill - Police Department: 5.6 → 19.2 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 19.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.96× in 2018

Town of Chapel Hill - Police Department's TCR rose 13.6 from 5.6 in 2016 to 19.2 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.96× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Chapel Hill, NC ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 9.8 · 307% of ind

  • DART 19.2 DART
  • RANK #34/49
  • PHOTO City of Burbank - Po…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~159 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Burbank - Police - Miscellaneous Members (0.0 TCR gap)

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Town of Chapel Hill - Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Town of Chapel Hill - Police Department averages 9.8 TCR (307% 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

Town of Chapel Hill - Police Department TCR series: 2016=5.6 · 2017=4.7 · 2018=19.2 · BLS 3.2

Where Town of Chapel Hill - Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #34 safest of 49 Police departments (except Ame employers in North Carolina.

Town of Chapel Hill - Police Department (159 employees, TCR 9.8) 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 Town of Chapel Hill - Police Department
Town of Chapel Hill - Police Department (159 employees, TCR 9.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Town of Chapel Hill - Police Department has more 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
2018 19.2 19.2 6 0 0
2017 4.7 3.7 5 0 0
2016 5.6 5.6 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · NC · Chapel Hill

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 104 employers in Chapel Hill, NC · 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 Burbank - Police - Miscellaneous Members 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saint Paul Police Headquarters 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Trenton - Police Department 9.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Chicago Height Police Department 9.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE NHM Constructors, Inc. 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pitt Electric ORI, LLC 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lovelady Plant 159 FTE
STATE-SIZE IPEX USA LLC 159 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 21,973 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Health Care 11,237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Spec Personnel, LLC 644 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brookdale chapel hill 509 FTE
NAT-TCR New Boston, TX 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Clovis Center (Nmclo) 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR #578 South Plainfield Shoprite 9.8 TCR
NAT-TCR George's Springdale Live Haul 9.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Vom Manufacturing 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Labcyte, Inc. 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Diveriscare of St Theresa 159 FTE
NAT-SIZE Equipment Share.com Inc 159 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: 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.