Elementary and secondary schools · Tennessee

Carthage Elementary School

Carthage, TN · ~61 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Carthage Elementary School runs at 215% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Elementary and secondary schools workplace, earning a grade F.

Carthage Elementary School: 3.0 TCR = 215% of Elementary and secondary schools BLS 1.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Carthage Elementary School safety composite

Carthage Elementary School scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% 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

65/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 61% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Carthage Elementary School: 2.8 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 10.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Carthage Elementary School's TCR rose 2.7 from 2.8 in 2016 to 5.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 10.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Carthage, TN ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 3.0 · 215% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #26/36
  • PHOTO ISD #32
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~61 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ISD #32 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Carthage Elementary School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Carthage Elementary School averages 3.0 TCR (215% 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

Carthage Elementary School TCR series: 2016=2.8 · 2017=0 · 2018=10.6 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=2.1 · 2023=3.8 · 2024=5.4 · BLS 1.4

Where Carthage Elementary School falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary and secondary schoo establishments

Safer than 61% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Tennessee alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #26 safest of 36 Elementary and secondary schoo employers in Tennessee.

Carthage Elementary School (61 employees, TCR 3.0) 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 Carthage Elementary School
Carthage Elementary School (61 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Carthage Elementary School has fewer employees than the Elementary and secondary 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
2024 5.4 0.0 3 0 0
2023 3.8 1.9 2 0 0
2022 2.1 2.1 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.5 0.0 1 0 0
2018 10.6 5.3 4 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 2.8 2.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · TN · Carthage

3,374 Elementary and secondary schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,743 rated employers in Tennessee with headcount on file · 21 employers in Carthage, TN · 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 ISD #32 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Boulder Bluff Elementary School 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sangaree Middle School 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR ISD 728 VandenBerge Middle School 3.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE CORPORATE OFFICE 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Tri-State Utility Construction, LLC 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE JOB 230B 61 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blount County Highway Dept 61 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bonnell Aluminum 631 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bonnell Aluminum, Inc. - Carthage 485 FTE
CITY-NEAR Riverview Medical Center 194 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 568 192 FTE
NAT-TCR 002-WAL 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Advantage Tank Lines 20311 - Milwaukee 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Guilford County - Elections 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Prospect of Tampa 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE 012-MAN 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raymond Management Company Madison Office 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Main Office 61 FTE
NAT-SIZE Canton R&D 61 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.