City and town managers' offices · Vermont

Town of Essex

Essex Junction, VT · ~125 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.5
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Town of Essex runs at 577% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical City and town managers' offices workplace, earning a grade F.

Town of Essex: 18.5 TCR = 577% of City and town managers' offices BLS 3.2 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Town of Essex safety composite

Town of Essex scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 52% 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: 10.9 → 16.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 30.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.14× in 2024

Town of Essex's TCR rose 5.9 from 10.9 in 2017 to 16.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 30.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921110 · Essex Junction, VT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 18.5 · 577% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #18/19
  • PHOTO City of Midland - Wa…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 153 inj
  • SIZE ~125 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Midland - Water Distribution (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 18.5 TCR (577% of the City and town managers' offices BLS benchmark).

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

Town of Essex TCR series: 2017=10.9 · 2018=30.5 · 2019=26 · 2020=21.8 · 2021=14.3 · 2022=6.3 · 2023=21.1 · 2024=16.8 · BLS 3.2

Where Town of Essex falls in its industry

1,010 City and town managers' office establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Vermont alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 19 City and town managers' office employers in Vermont.

Town of Essex (125 employees, TCR 18.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 05001,0001,500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Town of Essex
Town of Essex (125 employees, TCR 18.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 130 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Town of Essex has fewer employees than the City and town managers' offices median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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 16.8 2.5 17 3 0
2023 21.1 5.1 23 2 0
2022 6.3 1.8 6 1 0
2021 14.3 1.7 17 0 0
2020 21.8 2.5 23 3 0
2019 26.0 2.0 26 0 0
2018 30.5 3.0 31 0 0
2017 10.9 0.0 10 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921110 · VT · Essex Junction

1,010 City and town managers' offices employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 31 employers in Essex Junction, VT · 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 Midland - Water Distribution 18.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Champaign 18.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Town of Harwinton 18.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Eyota 18.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Vermont Creamery 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Velan - Williston 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE King Arthur Baking Co., Inc. - Gen Warehouse & Storage (Avalon) 125 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Mountain Behavior Consulting, Inc. 125 FTE
CITY-NEAR GLOBALFOUNDRIES Burlington 2,394 FTE
CITY-NEAR GlobalFoundries - Burlington 1,821 FTE
CITY-NEAR VT - Essex - 30 Gauthier Dr - Keurig Green Mountain Inc 436 FTE
CITY-NEAR PLB 366 FTE
NAT-TCR Pope Douglas Solid Waste Management 18.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Clark Industries, Inc 18.5 TCR
NAT-TCR DC35 18.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mike McCall Landscape, Inc. 18.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lakeside Village 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waste Industries Fayetteville 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dunnet Bay Main 125 FTE
NAT-SIZE Giant Eagle #0066 125 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.