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

Town of South Windsor - Fire Department

South Windsor, CT · ~112 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.1
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Town of South Windsor - Fire Department runs at 346% 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 South Windsor - Fire Department: 11.1 TCR = 346% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Town of South Windsor - Fire Department safety composite

Town of South Windsor - Fire Department scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 52% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 11.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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 South Windsor - Fire Department: 7.9 → 12.6 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 14.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2021

Town of South Windsor - Fire Department's TCR rose 4.7 from 7.9 in 2017 to 12.6 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 14.2 TCR. In 2021, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · South Windsor, CT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 11.1 · 346% of ind

  • DART 12.6 DART
  • RANK #56/113
  • PHOTO Fire Department
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 6 inj
  • SIZE ~112 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Department (0.0 TCR gap)

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Town of South Windsor - Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Town of South Windsor - Fire Department averages 11.1 TCR (346% 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 South Windsor - Fire Department TCR series: 2017=7.9 · 2018=7.8 · 2019=14.2 · 2020=12.8 · 2021=12.6 · BLS 3.2

Where Town of South Windsor - Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 42% 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 #56 safest of 113 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Connecticut.

Town of South Windsor - Fire Department (112 employees, TCR 11.1) 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 South Windsor - Fire Department
Town of South Windsor - Fire Department (112 employees, TCR 11.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Town of South Windsor - 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
2021 12.6 12.6 2 0 0
2020 12.8 12.8 2 0 0
2019 14.2 14.2 1 1 0
2018 7.8 7.8 0 1 0
2017 7.9 7.9 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · CT · South Windsor

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 · 117 employers in South Windsor, 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 Fire Department 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eugene/Springfield Fire Department 7 11.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Department 11.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Station 71 11.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sarracco Mechanical Waterbury 01 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE GRAND AVENUE 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE International Paper-Putnam,CT 112 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stewart EFI CT 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1223 Swn1000 630 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6458-ZSWN 579 FTE
CITY-NEAR Broadridge Customer Communications, LLC 571 FTE
CITY-NEAR New England Mechanical Services, Inc. 413 FTE
NAT-TCR Lexington Clinic Ambulatory Service Center 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Denver Ind. 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Benchmark-Marion 11.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Smokey Point Concrete 11.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Main Shop 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Falcon Operations Center 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store #037 112 FTE
NAT-SIZE DENVER, CO (Container) 112 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: 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.