Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) · Connecticut

West Haven Fire Department

West Haven, CT · ~18 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
11.5
Avg TCR
3.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West Haven Fire Department runs at 359% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) workplace, earning a grade F.

West Haven Fire Department: 11.5 TCR = 359% of Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) BLS 3.2 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Haven Fire Department safety composite

West Haven 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).

F

34/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 11.5 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.77 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

West Haven Fire Department: 13.3 → 25.5 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 25.5 TCR · DART/TCR 1.11× in 2022

West Haven Fire Department's TCR rose 12.2 from 13.3 in 2017 to 25.5 in 2022. In 2022, DART was 1.11× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 922160 · West Haven, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 11.5 · 359% of ind

  • DART 12.8 DART
  • RANK #59/113
  • PHOTO Lisle-Woodridge Fire…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~18 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lisle-Woodridge Fire Prot Dist (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Haven Fire Department in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Haven Fire Department averages 11.5 TCR (359% of the Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) BLS benchmark).

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

West Haven Fire Department TCR series: 2017=13.3 · 2018=8.8 · 2019=4.3 · 2020=8.5 · 2021=8.5 · 2022=25.5 · BLS 3.2

Where West Haven Fire Department falls in its industry

793 Firefighting (except forest), establishments

Safer than 40% 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 #59 safest of 113 Firefighting (except forest), employers in Connecticut.

West Haven Fire Department (18 employees, TCR 11.5) 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 West Haven Fire Department
West Haven Fire Department (18 employees, TCR 11.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 9.8

West Haven Fire Department has fewer employees than the Firefighting (except forest), government 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
2022 25.5 12.8 3 3 0
2021 8.5 8.5 2 0 0
2020 8.5 8.5 2 0 0
2019 4.3 4.3 1 0 0
2018 8.8 8.8 1 1 0
2017 13.3 8.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

922160 · CT · West Haven

793 Firefighting (except forest), government and volunteer (except private) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 53 employers in West Haven, CT · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Lisle-Woodridge Fire Prot Dist 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Iredell County EMS/EMS SSD 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR City of Yuba City Fire Department 11.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fire Station #8 11.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE city of Middletown - Sewer Department 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Town of Ridgefield 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE Half Full Brewery, Inc. 18 FTE
STATE-SIZE JSL Asphalt, Inc Windsor Locks 18 FTE
CITY-NEAR Island Lane Day Program 406 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sylvan R Shemitz Designs LLC 285 FTE
CITY-NEAR Glanbia Nutritionals 279 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watson LLC 268 FTE
NAT-TCR 357245-Roslyn Heights Po 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Bladensburg Facility 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Holzer Assisted Living - Gallipolis 11.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Friendship Villa & WEL-Home Health Miles City 11.5 TCR

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: 2022, 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.