General public administration · Connecticut

Town of Newtown

Newtown, CT · ~176 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.7
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Town of Newtown runs at 554% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical General public administration workplace, earning a grade F.

Town of Newtown: 17.7 TCR = 554% of General public administration BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Town of Newtown safety composite

Town of Newtown scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% 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 Newtown: 15.4 → 180.0 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 180.0 TCR · DART/TCR 2.25× in 2023

Town of Newtown's TCR rose 164.6 from 15.4 in 2017 to 180.0 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 921190 · Newtown, CT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 17.7 · 554% of ind

  • DART 40.0 DART
  • RANK #115/124
  • PHOTO City Of Sacramento-F…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 134 inj
  • SIZE ~176 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City Of Sacramento-Fleet Management Roll-Up (150032) (0.1 TCR gap)

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Town of Newtown in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Town of Newtown averages 17.7 TCR (554% of the General public administration BLS benchmark).

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

Town of Newtown TCR series: 2017=15.4 · 2018=16 · 2019=21.8 · 2020=118.8 · 2021=163.9 · 2023=180 · BLS 3.2

Where Town of Newtown falls in its industry

1,496 General public administration establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #115 safest of 124 General public administration employers in Connecticut.

Town of Newtown (176 employees, TCR 17.7) 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 Newtown
Town of Newtown (176 employees, TCR 17.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 93 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Town of Newtown has more employees than the General public administration 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
2023 180.0 40.0 24 3 0
2021 163.9 91.8 21 4 0
2020 118.8 56.3 14 5 0
2019 21.8 4.7 32 5 0
2018 16.0 5.3 23 4 0
2017 15.4 5.3 20 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

921190 · CT · Newtown

1,496 General public administration employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 29 employers in Newtown, 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 City Of Sacramento-Fleet Management Roll-Up (150032) 17.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 17.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Yuba County Public Works Garage 17.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Maricopa County - Animal Care and Control (790) 17.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Fluid Connectors : New Britain 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE Instrumentation : New Britain 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA Corporate; Torrington 176 FTE
STATE-SIZE Hartley and Parker Limited, Inc. 176 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hubbell Newtown 172 FTE
CITY-NEAR 226_5827 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Maplewood at Newtown 145 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eversource - Newtown 142 FTE
NAT-TCR Willow Manor Management, LLC 17.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Lewisville #121 17.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Progreso LMMM Corpus Christi #1 LLC 17.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Inwas - Washington 17.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Dart Container Polymers 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE King County Human Resources 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE Progressive Converting Appleton 176 FTE
NAT-SIZE Culpeper Baptist Retirement Community (dba The Culpeper) 176 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: 2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.