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

Town of Forest City - Police Department

Forest City, NC · ~33 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.9
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Town of Forest City - Police Department runs at 404% 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 Forest City - Police Department: 12.9 TCR = 404% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Town of Forest City - Police Department safety composite

Town of Forest City - Police Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 23%), 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)
F 12.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.0

2021→2024

Town of Forest City - Police Department injury rate improved

Town of Forest City - Police Department's TCR fell 8.0 from 18.2 in 2021 to 10.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 18.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.59× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=18.2 · 2023=10.4 · 2024=10.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Forest City, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.9 · 404% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #44/49
  • PHOTO Denver CO PDC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Denver CO PDC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Town of Forest City - Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Town of Forest City - Police Department averages 12.9 TCR (404% 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 Forest City - Police Department TCR series: 2021=18.2 · 2023=10.4 · 2024=10.2 · BLS 3.2

Where Town of Forest City - Police Department falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 30% 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 #44 safest of 49 Police departments (except Ame employers in North Carolina.

Town of Forest City - Police Department (33 employees, TCR 12.9) 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 Forest City - Police Department
Town of Forest City - Police Department (33 employees, TCR 12.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Town of Forest City - Police Department has fewer 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
2024 10.2 7.7 4 0 0
2023 10.4 5.2 4 0 0
2021 18.2 10.4 7 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · NC · Forest City

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 · 38 employers in Forest City, 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 Denver CO PDC 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 12.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Clark County Sheriff Department 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chesapeake Sheriff's Office 13.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Scott Brothers Inc 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Strickland Farms Payroll 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE James B. Morris Farms, Inc, 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE LTL, LLC 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR Forest City Permanent 473 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1036 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Meritor Heavy Vehicle Systems, LLC 390 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1036 379 FTE
NAT-TCR Metro Electric, Inc. 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Valley Pallet and Crating LLC 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pinnacle Express Delivery LLC 12.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lake Arrowhead Community Services District 12.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE San Dimas 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ashbrook Village Senior Living 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Inspired Senior Living of Hillsboro 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nutriom, LLC 33 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, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.