Elementary and secondary schools · Virginia

Amherst County Public Schools

Amherst, VA · ~843 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.8
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Amherst County Public Schools runs at 341% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Elementary and secondary schools workplace, earning a grade F.

Amherst County Public Schools: 4.8 TCR = 341% of Elementary and secondary schools BLS 1.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Amherst County Public Schools safety composite

Amherst County Public Schools scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 53% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 38%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.77 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% 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%).

TCR Δ

−3.0

2021→2024

Amherst County Public Schools injury rate improved

Amherst County Public Schools's TCR fell 3.0 from 5.7 in 2021 to 2.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 5.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=5.7 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=5.1 · 2024=2.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Amherst, VA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 4.8 · 341% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #68/105
  • PHOTO ELEMENTARY (100)
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 131 inj
  • SIZE ~843 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ELEMENTARY (100) (0.0 TCR gap)

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Amherst County Public Schools in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Amherst County Public Schools averages 4.8 TCR (341% of the Elementary and secondary schools BLS benchmark).

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

Amherst County Public Schools TCR series: 2021=5.7 · 2022=5.5 · 2023=5.1 · 2024=2.8 · BLS 1.4

Where Amherst County Public Schools falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary and secondary schoo establishments

Safer than 38% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Virginia alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #68 safest of 105 Elementary and secondary schoo employers in Virginia.

Amherst County Public Schools (843 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 02,0004,0006,0008,00010,000 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Amherst County Public Schools
Amherst County Public Schools (843 employees, TCR 4.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Amherst County Public Schools has more employees than the Elementary and secondary schools median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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
2024 2.8 0.9 19 0 0
2023 5.1 1.5 33 2 0
2022 5.5 1.6 38 0 0
2021 5.7 1.3 41 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · VA · Amherst

3,374 Elementary and secondary schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 12,673 rated employers in Virginia with headcount on file · 12 employers in Amherst, VA · 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 ELEMENTARY (100) 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Synergy/Stevens Alternative High School 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Decatur Public School District No. 61 4.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wolcott Board of Education 4.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Norfolk (18th Street) 845 FTE
STATE-SIZE VMD Integrators 841 FTE
STATE-SIZE Food City Distribution Center 845 FTE
STATE-SIZE Riverside Medical Group 838 FTE
CITY-NEAR Glad Mfg 363 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amherst 280 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amherst SNF Operation LLC 191 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buffalo Air Handling 110 FTE
NAT-TCR Abulatory Surgery Center 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 5189 - Cary 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Doris Italian Market Sunrise 4.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Malcolm Eaton Enterprises 4.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE MyMichigan Medical Center Alpena 843 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tobaccoville Manufacturing 843 FTE
NAT-SIZE Haltom City Plant 843 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raytheon_Goleta_CA_RVS 843 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, 2021. 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.