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

Unit 10: Fire Protection

Niantic, CT · ~29 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.8
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Unit 10: Fire Protection runs at 276% 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.

Unit 10: Fire Protection: 8.8 TCR = 276% of Fire departments (e.g., government, volunteer (except private)) BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Unit 10: Fire Protection safety composite

Unit 10: Fire Protection scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 52%), 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).

C

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 8.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% 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

Unit 10: Fire Protection: 0.0 → 11.2 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 16.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Unit 10: Fire Protection's TCR rose 11.2 from 0.0 in 2017 to 11.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2019 at 16.0 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 8.8 · 276% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #39/113
  • PHOTO Fire Station 9
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Fire Station 9 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Unit 10: Fire Protection in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Unit 10: Fire Protection averages 8.8 TCR (276% 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

Unit 10: Fire Protection TCR series: 2017=0 · 2018=5.7 · 2019=16 · 2020=11.2 · 2021=11.2 · BLS 3.2

Where Unit 10: Fire Protection falls in its industry

793 Fire departments (e.g., govern establishments

Safer than 56% 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 #39 safest of 113 Fire departments (e.g., govern employers in Connecticut.

Unit 10: Fire Protection (29 employees, TCR 8.8) 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 Unit 10: Fire Protection
Unit 10: Fire Protection (29 employees, TCR 8.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

Unit 10: Fire Protection has fewer employees than the Fire departments (e.g., government, volu median and a lower 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 11.2 0.0 3 0 0
2020 11.2 7.5 2 1 0
2019 16.0 4.0 3 1 0
2018 5.7 5.7 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · CT · Niantic

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 Niantic, 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 Station 9 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pine Rock Fire Company #4 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Freeport Fire Department - City of Freeport 8.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of St. Michael Fire Dept 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE First Taxing District Water Department Treatment Plant 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jacobs - Norwalk - OMI 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cocchiola Paving, Inc. 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Works - Streets amd Roads 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR York Correctional Institution 507 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bride Brook Health and Rehabilitation Center 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR York Correctional Institute 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR B-X Niantic LLC 90 FTE
NAT-TCR APP Anacortes 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Palo Alto Medical Foundation (378-10145) 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Scott Ellis Enterprises 8.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Broadway Resource Recovery, LLC 8.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Flavel Grocery Outlet 183 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Potters Industries Muscatine 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Butech, Inc. (440) 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pebble Beach - Del Monte Golf Course 29 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.