School districts, elementary or secondary · Connecticut

Claude Chester School

Groton, CT · ~64 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.2
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Claude Chester School runs at 374% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical School districts, elementary or secondary workplace, earning a grade F.

Claude Chester School: 5.2 TCR = 374% of School districts, elementary or secondary BLS 1.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Claude Chester School safety composite

Claude Chester School scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 6%), 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).

F

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.23 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% of industry peers

DART rate
F 7.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% 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

Claude Chester School: 4.0 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.5× in 2021

Claude Chester School's TCR rose 3.8 from 4.0 in 2018 to 7.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 5.2 · 374% of ind

  • DART 7.8 DART
  • RANK #195/381
  • PHOTO Melrose Area Public …
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Melrose Area Public Schools (0.0 TCR gap)

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Claude Chester School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Claude Chester School averages 5.2 TCR (374% of the School districts, elementary or secondary BLS benchmark).

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

Claude Chester School TCR series: 2018=4 · 2019=7.3 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=7.8 · BLS 1.4

Where Claude Chester School falls in its industry

3,374 School districts, elementary o establishments

Safer than 33% 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 #195 safest of 381 School districts, elementary o employers in Connecticut.

Claude Chester School (64 employees, TCR 5.2) 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 Claude Chester School
Claude Chester School (64 employees, TCR 5.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Claude Chester School has fewer employees than the School districts, elementary or secondar 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
2021 7.8 7.8 3 0 0
2020 1.7 0.0 1 0 0
2019 7.3 7.3 4 0 0
2018 4.0 0.0 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · CT · Groton

3,374 School districts, elementary or secondary employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 67 employers in Groton, 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 Melrose Area Public Schools 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bedford County Board of Education 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Russell School 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Charter Oak International Academy 5.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Henkels & McCoy, Connecticut - Portland 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ronnie DeMeo Construction Inc. 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Brookwood Laminating Inc. 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2967-CT32 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Electric Boat, Groton, CT. 15,116 FTE
CITY-NEAR General Dynamics Electric Boat 12,075 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pfizer Inc 3,201 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Connecticut- Avery Point Campus 314 FTE
NAT-TCR Jacksonville Plant 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR The Ritz-Carlton Dove Mountain 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Shoprite of Manahawkin 5.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Foss Manufatoring Co LLC (P-3) 5.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Sutter Care at Home (247-SIPS) 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sutter Medical Center Sacramento (110-1011) 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Walker Lumber Company Inc 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tekna 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.