K-5 School · Connecticut

Bucks Hill Elementary School

Waterbury, CT · ~89 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bucks Hill Elementary School runs at 399% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical K-5 School workplace, earning a grade F.

Bucks Hill Elementary School: 5.6 TCR = 399% of K-5 School BLS 1.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bucks Hill Elementary School safety composite

Bucks Hill Elementary School scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

−1.8

2018→2023

Bucks Hill Elementary School injury rate improved

Bucks Hill Elementary School's TCR fell 1.8 from 3.5 in 2018 to 1.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 12.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=3.5 · 2019=12.3 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=8.8 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=1.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Waterbury, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 5.6 · 399% of ind

  • DART 1.8 DART
  • RANK #210/381
  • PHOTO BEMIDJI HIGH SCHOOL
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 19 inj
  • SIZE ~89 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BEMIDJI HIGH SCHOOL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bucks Hill Elementary School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bucks Hill Elementary School averages 5.6 TCR (399% of the K-5 School BLS benchmark).

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

Bucks Hill Elementary School TCR series: 2018=3.5 · 2019=12.3 · 2020=1.8 · 2021=8.8 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=1.8 · BLS 1.4

Where Bucks Hill Elementary School falls in its industry

3,374 K-5 School establishments

Safer than 30% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #210 safest of 381 K-5 School employers in Connecticut.

Bucks Hill Elementary School (89 employees, TCR 5.6) 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 Bucks Hill Elementary School
Bucks Hill Elementary School (89 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Bucks Hill Elementary School has more employees than the K-5 School 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
2023 1.8 1.8 1 0 0
2022 5.3 1.8 3 0 0
2021 8.8 5.3 5 0 0
2020 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2019 12.3 3.5 7 0 0
2018 3.5 1.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · CT · Waterbury

3,374 K-5 School employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 218 employers in Waterbury, 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 BEMIDJI HIGH SCHOOL 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reed Elementary School 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gemma Services 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hoover Elementary School 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Waters Construction Company, Inc. 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE MPH 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kim Industries Inc. 89 FTE
STATE-SIZE 021 - Naugatuck 89 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Mary's Hospital 1,654 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waterbury Hospital 1,472 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hartford-Saint Mary's Hospital 1,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Naugatuck Valley Community College 1,277 FTE
NAT-TCR McKee Foods Transportation - AZ 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR The Gilbert Company Colton #2 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Cardinal Health At Home Jacksonville 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Huntington Woods 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE BSN Sports LLC McClellan Park 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bloomer Healthcare, LLC 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mountain States Const. Co. 89 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dataone Systems 89 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.