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Buchanan Middle School

Name: Buchanan Middle School Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Buchanan, MI · ~30 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

B
Good Safety Record: 1.1
Avg TCR: 1.4
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Buchanan Middle School runs at 78% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Middle schools workplace, earning a grade B.

Buchanan Middle School: 1.1 TCR = 78% of Middle schools BLS 1.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Buchanan Middle School safety composite

Buchanan Middle School scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 92% 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).

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 1.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 92% 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 Middle School held a steady TCR band

Buchanan Middle School's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.4 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=4.4 · 2018=0.0 · 2019=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Buchanan, MI AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.1 · 78% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #29/142
PHOTO District Wide
BOOK 4y book
INJ 1 inj
SIZE ~30 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: District Wide (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.1
District Wide

1.1
District Offic

1.1
ISD #700 High

1.1
Edison Junior

1.1

What this shows Buchanan Middle School averages 1.1 TCR (78% of the Middle schools BLS benchmark).

Buchanan Middle School TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=4.4 · 2018=0 · 2019=0 · BLS 1.4

Where Buchanan Middle School falls in its industry

3,374 Middle schools establishments

Safer than 92% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Michigan alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #29 safest of 142 Middle schools employers in Michigan.

Buchanan Middle School (30 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Buchanan Middle School has fewer employees than the Middle 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	Injuries
2019	0.0	0
2018	0.0	0
2017	4.4	1
2016	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · MI · Buchanan

3,374 Middle 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	District Wide	JACKSON, MN	1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	District Office	ALBANY, OR	1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	ISD #700 High School	HERMANTOWN, MN	1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Edison Junior High School	PEKIN, IL	1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Kitchen Farms, Inc.	ELMIRA	30 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Revolution Farms	CALEDONIA	30 FTE
STATE-SIZE	TES Filer City Station	FILER CITY	30 FTE
STATE-SIZE	United Fermi II Nuclear Power Plant Project	NEWPORT	30 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Fapco inc	Buchanan	228 FTE
CITY-NEAR	1467 RXO EXPRESS, LLC-1467	Buchanan	146 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Buchanan	Buchanan	65 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Buchanan High School	Buchanan	64 FTE
NAT-TCR	Clifton Ridge Marine terminal	Sulphur, LA	1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	WSI- Matteson	Matteson, IL	1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Van Wert Service Center	Van Wert, OH	1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Ermco Der	Dyersburg, TN	1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Charlotte, NC- Staples Delivery Operations (SDO)	Charlotte, NC	30 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Main Office	Pinellas Park, FL	30 FTE
NAT-SIZE	ERGA	Atlanta, GA	30 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Columbia, SC	West Columbia, SC	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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.