Education · Connecticut

Gaffney Elementary School

New Britain, CT · ~117 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.6
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Gaffney Elementary School runs at 1046% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Education workplace, earning a grade F.

Gaffney Elementary School: 14.6 TCR = 1046% of Education BLS 1.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Gaffney Elementary School safety composite

Gaffney Elementary School scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 1%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% of industry peers

DART rate
F 23.73 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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

Gaffney Elementary School: 15.6 → 23.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 23.7 TCR · DART/TCR 1.62× in 2024

Gaffney Elementary School's TCR rose 8.2 from 15.6 in 2016 to 23.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.62× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · New Britain, CT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 14.6 · 1046% of ind

  • DART 23.7 DART
  • RANK #340/381
  • PHOTO Laurel Ridge Middle …
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 95 inj
  • SIZE ~117 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Laurel Ridge Middle School (0.0 TCR gap)

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Gaffney Elementary School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Gaffney Elementary School averages 14.6 TCR (1046% of the Education BLS benchmark).

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

Gaffney Elementary School TCR series: 2016=15.6 · 2017=17.5 · 2018=8.2 · 2019=10.6 · 2020=5.2 · 2021=20.6 · 2022=19.9 · 2023=10.5 · 2024=23.7 · BLS 1.4

Where Gaffney Elementary School falls in its industry

3,374 Education establishments

Safer than 5% 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 #340 safest of 381 Education employers in Connecticut.

Gaffney Elementary School (117 employees, TCR 14.6) 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 Gaffney Elementary School
Gaffney Elementary School (117 employees, TCR 14.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Gaffney Elementary School has more employees than the Education 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 23.7 23.7 16 0 0
2023 10.5 6.6 8 0 0
2022 19.9 15.9 15 0 0
2021 20.6 12.8 16 0 0
2020 5.2 3.9 4 0 0
2019 10.6 9.3 8 0 0
2018 8.2 8.2 6 0 0
2017 17.5 17.5 12 0 0
2016 15.6 10.9 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · CT · New Britain

3,374 Education employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 113 employers in New Britain, 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 Laurel Ridge Middle School 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR RIVER STREET SCHOOL - BIRKIEN 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crystal Springs Inc. 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lake Park Audubon Elementary School 14.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Louth Callan Renewables LLC 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE Safety Marking Inc. 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE InCord 117 FTE
STATE-SIZE CKS Naugatuck 117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Campus 2,582 FTE
CITY-NEAR HOSPITAL OF CENTRAL CT-NB 2,373 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Hospital of Central Connecticut-NB 2,042 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hospital For Special Care 1,176 FTE
NAT-TCR Frontline Logistics, LLC 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacesetter - Chicago 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Main Yard 14.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Agway of Cape Cod - Orleans 14.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Edwards Moving & Rigging, Inc. 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Goya Foods, Inc. of Illinois 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Best Western Premier 117 FTE
NAT-SIZE Embassy Suites by Hilton Jonesboro 117 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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