Elementary and secondary schools · Connecticut

O'Brien STEM Academy

East Hartford, CT · ~63 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

O'Brien STEM Academy runs at 303% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Elementary and secondary schools workplace, earning a grade F.

O'Brien STEM Academy: 4.2 TCR = 303% of Elementary and secondary schools BLS 1.4 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

O'Brien STEM Academy safety composite

O'Brien STEM Academy scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

O'Brien STEM Academy: 3.6 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 1.26× in 2022

O'Brien STEM Academy's TCR rose 1.7 from 3.6 in 2016 to 5.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2018 at 8.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · East Hartford, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.2 · 303% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #150/381
  • PHOTO Jenny Lind School
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~63 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Jenny Lind School (0.0 TCR gap)

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O'Brien STEM Academy in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows O'Brien STEM Academy averages 4.2 TCR (303% 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

O'Brien STEM Academy TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=5.4 · 2018=8.4 · 2019=7 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=5.3 · BLS 1.4

Where O'Brien STEM Academy falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary and secondary schoo establishments

Safer than 44% 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 #150 safest of 381 Elementary and secondary schoo employers in Connecticut.

O'Brien STEM Academy (63 employees, TCR 4.2) 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 O'Brien STEM Academy
O'Brien STEM Academy (63 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

O'Brien STEM Academy has fewer 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
2022 5.3 5.3 2 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 7.0 2.3 1 2 0
2018 8.4 8.4 3 0 0
2017 5.4 1.8 3 0 0
2016 3.6 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · CT · East Hartford

3,374 Elementary and secondary schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 119 employers in East Hartford, 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 Jenny Lind School 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR District Office 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR East Lake Elementary School 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Johnsburg School District #12 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Public Works 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blakeslee Arpaia Chapman 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenwood Industries CT 63 FTE
STATE-SIZE OSF FLAVORS INC. 63 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pratt & Whitney East Hartford 9,837 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cyient, Inc. 1,228 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cyient, Inc (US combined) 1,074 FTE
CITY-NEAR DDS North Region 755 FTE
NAT-TCR Stillhouse Rehabilitation & Healthcare 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR 580 - Warwick 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Melco Construction 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Management Companies 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Country Mart # 70 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1075 - Victoria 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE 1200 - Spanish Fort 63 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bellingham, WA 63 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: 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.