Academies, elementary or secondary · Alaska

Mat-Su Borough School District

Palmer, AK · ~2,660 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.5
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Mat-Su Borough School District runs at 324% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Academies, elementary or secondary workplace, earning a grade F.

Mat-Su Borough School District: 4.5 TCR = 324% of Academies, elementary or secondary BLS 1.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Mat-Su Borough School District safety composite

Mat-Su Borough School District 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 4.53 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%).

Rising injury rate

Mat-Su Borough School District: 4.2 → 5.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 5.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.47× in 2024

Mat-Su Borough School District's TCR rose 0.9 from 4.2 in 2022 to 5.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Palmer, AK ABOVE-IND · LARGE

Grade F · TCR 4.5 · 324% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #13/17
  • PHOTO Grandview Elementary
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 254 inj
  • SIZE ~2,660 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Grandview Elementary (0.0 TCR gap)

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Mat-Su Borough School District in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Mat-Su Borough School District averages 4.5 TCR (324% of the Academies, elementary or secondary BLS benchmark).

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

Mat-Su Borough School District TCR series: 2022=4.2 · 2023=4.3 · 2024=5.1 · BLS 1.4

Where Mat-Su Borough School District falls in its industry

3,374 Academies, elementary or secon establishments

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

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Alaska alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 17 Academies, elementary or secon employers in Alaska.

Mat-Su Borough School District (2,660 employees, TCR 4.5) 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 Mat-Su Borough School District
Mat-Su Borough School District (2,660 employees, TCR 4.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Mat-Su Borough School District has more employees than the Academies, elementary or secondary 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 5.1 2.1 93 3 0
2023 4.3 1.4 84 0 0
2022 4.2 1.0 77 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · AK · Palmer

3,374 Academies, elementary or secondary employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,558 rated employers in Alaska with headcount on file · 64 employers in Palmer, AK · 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 Grandview Elementary 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lac qui Parle Valley 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Red Rock Central Schools 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR MACCRAY Elementary 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District 2,784 FTE
STATE-SIZE AK10 PROVIDENCE ALASKA MEDICAL CTR-ANCHORAGE 2,864 FTE
STATE-SIZE Alaska Native Medical Center 2,329 FTE
STATE-SIZE GCI Communication Corp. 1,935 FTE
CITY-NEAR Matanuska Telecom Association, Inc. 285 FTE
CITY-NEAR 701-00649 269 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2051 WEST REGION-WASILLA AK 241 FTE
CITY-NEAR DSJ MSB Admin Building 170 FTE
NAT-TCR Oasis Gin, Inc 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Wheeling 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Big Sandy Superstore (06) 4.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Triton Structural Concrete, Inc. 4.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE ARDx Gurnee J54 2,661 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wesley Medical Center 2,657 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moear - Earth City 2,657 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sharp HealthCare 2,657 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.