Food Services · Connecticut

500286600 the Taft School

Watertown, CT · ~70 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.7
Avg TCR
3.0
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

500286600 the Taft School runs at 291% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Food Services workplace, earning a grade F.

500286600 the Taft School: 8.7 TCR = 291% of Food Services BLS 3.0 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

500286600 the Taft School safety composite

500286600 the Taft School scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% of industry peers

DART rate
F 8.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% 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

500286600 the Taft School: 8.7 → 68.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 68.4 TCR · DART/TCR 3.92× in 2024

500286600 the Taft School's TCR rose 59.6 from 8.7 in 2023 to 68.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 3.92× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 722310 · Watertown, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 8.7 · 291% of ind

  • DART 34.2 DART
  • RANK #91/105
  • PHOTO Advanced Meal
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Advanced Meal (0.0 TCR gap)

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500286600 the Taft School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 500286600 the Taft School averages 8.7 TCR (291% of the Food Services BLS benchmark).

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

500286600 the Taft School TCR series: 2023=8.7 · 2024=68.4 · BLS 3.0

Where 500286600 the Taft School falls in its industry

6,952 Food Services establishments

Safer than 13% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #91 safest of 105 Food Services employers in Connecticut.

500286600 the Taft School (70 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 500286600 the Taft School
500286600 the Taft School (70 employees, TCR 8.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 43 employees and a TCR of 3.5

500286600 the Taft School has more employees than the Food Services median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 68.4 34.2 2 0 0
2023 8.7 8.7 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

722310 · CT · Watertown

6,952 Food Services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 55 employers in Watertown, 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 Advanced Meal 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT MORAVIAN ACADEMY 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schreiner Univ 8.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR SODEXO AT PLIMOTH PLANTATION 8.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lebanon 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Tolland 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pavarini NE Construction Co. LLC 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Middletown Public Works 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR CTWAT - WATERBURY 573 FTE
CITY-NEAR WATERBURY (CTWAT) 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watertown Public Schools 503 FTE
CITY-NEAR Global Steering Systems 359 FTE
NAT-TCR Bix Produce 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Sysco San Diego, Inc 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Transport - 303 303SH 8.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 265 Naples 8.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE 8539 Littleton Nh 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Spring Creek Village 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE VSPOne Tampa Bay 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Colvico, Inc 70 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. 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.