Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) · Connecticut

Unit 9: Police & Dog Warden

Niantic, CT · ~30 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
17.3
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Unit 9: Police & Dog Warden runs at 539% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) workplace, earning a grade F.

Unit 9: Police & Dog Warden: 17.3 TCR = 539% of Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS 3.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Unit 9: Police & Dog Warden safety composite

Unit 9: Police & Dog Warden scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 92% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (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

51/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 17.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 53% 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 9: Police & Dog Warden: 3.0 → 34.5 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 37.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2021

Unit 9: Police & Dog Warden's TCR rose 31.5 from 3.0 in 2017 to 34.5 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 37.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922120 · Niantic, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 17.3 · 539% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #85/94
  • PHOTO Constable N. Las Vegas
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 26 inj
  • SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Constable N. Las Vegas (0.0 TCR gap)

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Unit 9: Police & Dog Warden in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Unit 9: Police & Dog Warden averages 17.3 TCR (539% of the Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) BLS benchmark).

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

Unit 9: Police & Dog Warden TCR series: 2017=3 · 2018=0 · 2019=11.3 · 2020=37.6 · 2021=34.5 · BLS 3.2

Where Unit 9: Police & Dog Warden falls in its industry

716 Police departments (except Ame establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 9.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #85 safest of 94 Police departments (except Ame employers in Connecticut.

Unit 9: Police & Dog Warden (30 employees, TCR 17.3) 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 0200400600 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Unit 9: Police & Dog Warden
Unit 9: Police & Dog Warden (30 employees, TCR 17.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 95 employees and a TCR of 9.5

Unit 9: Police & Dog Warden has fewer employees than the Police departments (except American Indi 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
2021 34.5 0.0 11 0 0
2020 37.6 6.3 12 0 0
2019 11.3 0.0 3 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 3.0 3.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922120 · CT · Niantic

716 Police departments (except American Indian or Alaska Native) 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 Constable N. Las Vegas 17.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Los Angeles Police Department, Newton Division 17.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Burnsville - Police 17.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Springfield - Police Department 17.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE CNG - Greenwich 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sewer Division 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE D & G Contractors, Inc. 30 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paramount Construction LLC 30 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 6458-ZAMA 17.3 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Zion 17.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 357535-Schenectady Po 17.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Retama Manor South 17.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Silco Fire & Security - Dayton 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE EDS Electronics, Inc. 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1 30 FTE
NAT-SIZE Samsung Job Site 30 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.