Community College · Connecticut

Housatonic Community College

Bridgeport, CT · ~482 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
1.3
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Housatonic Community College runs at 89% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Community College workplace, earning a grade C.

Housatonic Community College: 1.3 TCR = 89% of Community College BLS 1.4 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Housatonic Community College safety composite

Housatonic Community College scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

62/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.25 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−0.9

2016→2024

Housatonic Community College injury rate improved

Housatonic Community College's TCR fell 0.9 from 0.9 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 3.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.9 · 2017=3.7 · 2019=0.4 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611210 · Bridgeport, CT AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 1.3 · 89% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO Danville Area Commun…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~482 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Danville Area Community College (0.0 TCR gap)

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Housatonic Community College in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Housatonic Community College averages 1.3 TCR (89% of the Community College BLS benchmark).

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

Housatonic Community College TCR series: 2016=0.9 · 2017=3.7 · 2019=0.4 · 2024=0 · BLS 1.4

Where Housatonic Community College falls in its industry

127 Community College establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 5 Community College employers in Connecticut.

Housatonic Community College (482 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4 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 01,0002,0003,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Housatonic Community College
Housatonic Community College (482 employees, TCR 1.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 400 employees and a TCR of 1.4

Housatonic Community College has more employees than the Community College median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.4. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.4 0.4 1 0 0
2017 3.7 2.1 9 0 0
2016 0.9 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611210 · CT · Bridgeport

127 Community College employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 150 employers in Bridgeport, 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 Danville Area Community College 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR John A. Logan College 1.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR College of the Redwoods 1.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thomas Nelson - Hapmpton 1.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Community Solutions, Inc. 482 FTE
STATE-SIZE Wethersfield DMV 483 FTE
STATE-SIZE Prides Corner Farms, Inc. 484 FTE
STATE-SIZE Conair LLC 484 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bridgeport Hospital 3,332 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Vincent's Medical Center - Bridgeport Campus 2,340 FTE
CITY-NEAR ST VINCENTS MEDICAL CENTER - BRIDGEPORT 2,273 FTE
CITY-NEAR 1855-CTBRI1 2,079 FTE
NAT-TCR Main 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Elecnor Hawkeye 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Brooklyn Cruise Terminal 1.3 TCR
NAT-TCR W.J. O'Neil Company 1.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Tait Towers Manufacturing LLC 482 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mon Yough Community Services Inc 482 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alkar Napa 482 FTE
NAT-SIZE Creative Converting 482 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, 2019, 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.