Elementary and secondary schools · Arizona

J.O. Combs Unified School District No. 44

San Tan Valley, AZ · ~643 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.6
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

J.O. Combs Unified School District No. 44 runs at 327% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Elementary and secondary schools workplace, earning a grade F.

J.O. Combs Unified School District No. 44: 4.6 TCR = 327% of Elementary and secondary schools BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

J.O. Combs Unified School District No. 44 safety composite

J.O. Combs Unified School District No. 44 scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 37%), 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).

D

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% 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%).

J.O. Combs Unified School District No. 44 held a steady TCR band

J.O. Combs Unified School District No. 44's TCR held near 0.1 from 4.7 in 2022 to 4.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.7 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=4.7 · 2023=4.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · San Tan Valley, AZ ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 4.6 · 327% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #5/6
  • PHOTO Worthington Middle S…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 34 inj
  • SIZE ~643 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Worthington Middle School (0.0 TCR gap)

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J.O. Combs Unified School District No. 44 in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows J.O. Combs Unified School District No. 44 averages 4.6 TCR (327% 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

J.O. Combs Unified School District No. 44 TCR series: 2022=4.7 · 2023=4.5 · BLS 1.4

Where J.O. Combs Unified School District No. 44 falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary and secondary schoo establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Arizona alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 6 Elementary and secondary schoo employers in Arizona.

J.O. Combs Unified School District No. 44 (643 employees, TCR 4.6) 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 J.O. Combs Unified School District No. 44
J.O. Combs Unified School District No. 44 (643 employees, TCR 4.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

J.O. Combs Unified School District No. 44 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
2023 4.5 2.1 17 0 0
2022 4.7 2.1 17 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · AZ · San Tan Valley

3,374 Elementary and secondary schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 9,594 rated employers in Arizona with headcount on file · 12 employers in San Tan Valley, AZ · 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 Worthington Middle School 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR HL-O High School 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR College and Career Readiness Center 4.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sanilac Intermediate School District 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Uber Technologies Phoenix 643 FTE
STATE-SIZE SCI, LLC - Scottsdale 642 FTE
STATE-SIZE Service Center Operations : 607 642 FTE
STATE-SIZE CANYON VISTA MEDICAL CENTER 645 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3751 456 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 3751 438 FTE
CITY-NEAR 660-00682 258 FTE
CITY-NEAR 660-00084 179 FTE
NAT-TCR USM Store #547 (United) 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Embassy Suites Livonia 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #2138 4.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Parkland Medical Center 4.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE American Fire Protection Group 643 FTE
NAT-SIZE Synergy Care, Inc. 643 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pioneer Campus 643 FTE
NAT-SIZE Erlanger Wild Flavors 643 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: 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.