Elementary and secondary schools · New York

Cato-Meridian Central School District

Cato, NY · ~216 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Cato-Meridian Central School District runs at 273% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Elementary and secondary schools workplace, earning a grade F.

Cato-Meridian Central School District: 3.8 TCR = 273% of Elementary and secondary schools BLS 1.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Cato-Meridian Central School District safety composite

Cato-Meridian Central School District scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 49%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% 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

Cato-Meridian Central School District: 1.7 → 9.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Cato-Meridian Central School District's TCR rose 7.4 from 1.7 in 2022 to 9.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Cato, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 3.8 · 273% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/38
  • PHOTO UCP - Administration
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 20 inj
  • SIZE ~216 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: UCP - Administration (0.0 TCR gap)

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Cato-Meridian Central School District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Cato-Meridian Central School District averages 3.8 TCR (273% 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

Cato-Meridian Central School District TCR series: 2022=1.7 · 2023=0.6 · 2024=9.1 · BLS 1.4

Where Cato-Meridian Central School District falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary and secondary schoo establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 38 Elementary and secondary schoo employers in New York.

Cato-Meridian Central School District (216 employees, TCR 3.8) 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 Cato-Meridian Central School District
Cato-Meridian Central School District (216 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Cato-Meridian Central School District 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 9.1 0.0 16 0 0
2023 0.6 0.6 1 0 0
2022 1.7 0.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · NY · Cato

3,374 Elementary and secondary schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 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 UCP - Administration 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR MSD of Pike Township Eastbrook Elementary School 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jefferson County Public Schools 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pitt County Schools 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE 55-Suffern Distribution Center 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE East River Generating Station 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cardoza Plumbing Corp. 216 FTE
STATE-SIZE Upstate Niagara Cooperative Inc - West Seneca 216 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nutrition Bar Confectioners 72 FTE
NAT-TCR Novant Health Kernersville Medical Center 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Osprey Cove Golf Club 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cadillac MI Yard 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Monogram Metals 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE T.H Rogers Lumber Company 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE Thunder Bay Community Health Service, Inc MSWP 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE Process Equipment Inc. (Manufacturing) 216 FTE
NAT-SIZE Enlight Group II LLC 216 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. 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.