City Government · Arizona

Tucson Police Department

Tucson, AZ · ~1,192 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.2
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

Tucson Police Department runs at 317% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical City Government workplace, earning a grade F.

Tucson Police Department: 10.2 TCR = 317% of City Government BLS 3.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Tucson Police Department safety composite

Tucson Police Department scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 46% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 4%), 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)
D 10.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.69 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 4% 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

Tucson Police Department: 8.3 → 11.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 11.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.76× in 2024

Tucson Police Department's TCR rose 2.8 from 8.3 in 2022 to 11.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.76× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Tucson, AZ ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 10.2 · 317% of ind

  • DART 7.7 DART
  • RANK #19/29
  • PHOTO Blount County Sherif…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 349 inj
  • SIZE ~1,192 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Blount County Sheriff's Office (0.0 TCR gap)

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Tucson Police Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Tucson Police Department averages 10.2 TCR (317% of the City Government BLS benchmark).

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

Tucson Police Department TCR series: 2022=8.3 · 2023=10.9 · 2024=11.2 · BLS 3.2

Where Tucson Police Department falls in its industry

716 City Government establishments

Safer than 46% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 29 City Government employers in Arizona.

Tucson Police Department (1,192 employees, TCR 10.2) 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 05001,0001,500 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Tucson Police Department
Tucson Police Department (1,192 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Tucson Police Department has more employees than the City Government 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 11.2 7.7 132 0 1
2023 10.9 8.1 124 0 0
2022 8.3 6.1 93 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · AZ · Tucson

716 City Government employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 1,150 employers in Tucson, AZ · 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 Blount County Sheriff's Office 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR CPD-22nd District Police Station | 1900 W. Monterey Ave. 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Police Department 10.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Amazon Transportation Services : AZA5 1,190 FTE
STATE-SIZE Glendale Elementary School District 1,201 FTE
STATE-SIZE Empire Southwest LLC Mesa 1,205 FTE
STATE-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - PHX3 1,216 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Arizona 18,951 FTE
CITY-NEAR Raytheon_Tucson_AZ_Airport Site 9,878 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tucson Medical Center 4,407 FTE
CITY-NEAR U.S. Border Patrol Sector - Tucson 3,989 FTE
NAT-TCR Bellwether Farms, LLC 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR LAS001 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR King Kullen #14 10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Allina Health River Falls Clinic 10.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Green Bay Dressed Beef 1,192 FTE
NAT-SIZE Polynesian Cultural Center 1,192 FTE
NAT-SIZE New South Express, LLC 1,192 FTE
NAT-SIZE CTtransit 1,192 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.