Auditor's offices, government · Connecticut

Town of Essex

Essex, CT · ~50 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.7
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Town of Essex runs at 303% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Auditor's offices, government workplace, earning a grade F.

Town of Essex: 9.7 TCR = 303% of Auditor's offices, government BLS 3.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Town of Essex safety composite

Town of Essex scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

49/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

Town of Essex: 5.5 → 13.9 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 13.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Town of Essex's TCR rose 8.4 from 5.5 in 2023 to 13.9 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Essex, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.7 · 303% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #92/124
  • PHOTO Plainfield Park Dist…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Plainfield Park District (0.0 TCR gap)

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Town of Essex in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Town of Essex averages 9.7 TCR (303% of the Auditor's offices, government BLS benchmark).

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

Town of Essex TCR series: 2023=5.5 · 2024=13.9 · BLS 3.2

Where Town of Essex falls in its industry

1,496 Auditor's offices, government establishments

Safer than 20% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #92 safest of 124 Auditor's offices, government employers in Connecticut.

Town of Essex (50 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0200400600800 010203040 Average employees Total Case Rate Town of Essex
Town of Essex (50 employees, TCR 9.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Town of Essex has fewer employees than the Auditor's offices, government median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 13.9 0.0 5 0 0
2023 5.5 5.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · CT · Essex

1,496 Auditor's offices, government employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 8 employers in Essex, 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 Plainfield Park District 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SERVICIOS ADMINISTRATIVOS 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Manistee 9.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Township of Byram 9.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE LeafGuard of Connecticut 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eagle Fence and Guardrail 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE CT32 AMETEK SMP WALLINGFORD 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advanced Performance Glass, Inc. 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR ESSEX 252 FTE
CITY-NEAR Essex Meadows 204 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR Municipality 50 FTE
NAT-TCR W.L. Roenigk, Inc. - Pittsburgh 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Njmto - Mount Olive 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Azsaf - Safford 9.7 TCR
NAT-TCR JK2 Scenic, LLC. 9.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Micro Tool Co. 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE 360 Communities 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE ARC Industries West 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Palmer West Construction Company Inc 50 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.