Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) · Connecticut

Town of Portland - Fire Department

Portland, CT · ~56 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Town of Portland - Fire Department runs at 477% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) workplace, earning a grade F.

Town of Portland - Fire Department: 15.3 TCR = 477% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Town of Portland - Fire Department safety composite

Town of Portland - Fire Department scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 25%), 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

53/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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 Portland - Fire Department: 0.0 → 89.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 89.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Town of Portland - Fire Department's TCR rose 89.0 from 0.0 in 2018 to 89.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · Portland, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.3 · 477% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #83/113
  • PHOTO City of Fairfield-Fire
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: City of Fairfield-Fire (0.0 TCR gap)

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Town of Portland - Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Town of Portland - Fire Department averages 15.3 TCR (477% of the Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS benchmark).

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

Town of Portland - Fire Department TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=52.5 · 2021=31.6 · 2022=58.9 · 2023=29.5 · 2024=89 · BLS 3.2

Where Town of Portland - Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 25% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #83 safest of 113 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Connecticut.

Town of Portland - Fire Department (56 employees, TCR 15.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8 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 0200400600800 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Town of Portland - Fire Department
Town of Portland - Fire Department (56 employees, TCR 15.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Town of Portland - Fire Department has more employees than the Fire departments (e.g., government, volu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 9.8. 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 89.0 0.0 3 0 0
2023 29.5 0.0 1 0 0
2022 58.9 0.0 2 0 0
2021 31.6 0.0 1 0 0
2020 52.5 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · CT · Portland

793 Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 15 employers in Portland, 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 Fairfield-Fire 15.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lockport Township Fire Protection District 15.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 15.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Station #3 15.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Morganti Group Inc CT 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carlin Contracting Co., Inc. 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE New England Yankee Construction, LLC 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Longhini Sausage 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Portland Care and Rehabilitation Centre 106 FTE
CITY-NEAR Portland Care and Rehab Centre 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Town of Portland - All Others 99 FTE
CITY-NEAR JARVIS AIRFOIL INC 84 FTE
NAT-TCR Lancaster Leaf Tobacco Company, Inc. - Storage 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kearny Nj 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR St Elizabeth Healthcare 15.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Commonwealth Senior Living at Williamsburg 15.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Antioch Building Materials 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wellesley 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sinclair Concrete 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE West Basin Municipal Water District 56 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.