High schools · Michigan

Buchanan High School

Buchanan, MI · ~64 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Buchanan High School runs at 113% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical High schools workplace, earning a grade C.

Buchanan High School: 1.6 TCR = 113% of High schools BLS 1.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buchanan High School safety composite

Buchanan High School scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 84% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

74/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 84% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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%).

Buchanan High School held a steady TCR band

Buchanan High School's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.0 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=4.0 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Buchanan, MI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 1.6 · 113% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #37/142
  • PHOTO District Center
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: District Center (0.0 TCR gap)

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Buchanan High School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Buchanan High School averages 1.6 TCR (113% of the High schools BLS benchmark).

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

Buchanan High School TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=4 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=0 · BLS 1.4

Where Buchanan High School falls in its industry

3,374 High schools establishments

Safer than 84% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #37 safest of 142 High schools employers in Michigan.

Buchanan High School (64 employees, TCR 1.6) 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 Buchanan High School
Buchanan High School (64 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Buchanan High School has fewer employees than the High schools median and a lower 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
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2017 4.0 0.0 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MI · Buchanan

3,374 High schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,393 rated employers in Michigan with headcount on file · 16 employers in Buchanan, MI · 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 District Center 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ISD 728 Zimmerman Elementary 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR ISD 991 - Pipestone Office 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Western Placer Unified School District 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Lapeer Service Center 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gas Construction Royal Oak 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE First Contracting, Inc. 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Premiere Property Services, LLC 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fapco inc 228 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1467 RXO EXPRESS, LLC-1467 146 FTE
CITY-NEAR Buchanan 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tabor Hill Winery 58 FTE
NAT-TCR WVO - Call Center - Springfield, MO 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Schwarze 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cameron 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Rineco Transport 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE EFI 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Traffic Systems, Inc. 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Livermore Training Center 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE El Paso WECO 64 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.