Handicapped, schools for, elementary or secondary · Connecticut

River Street School - Birken

Bloomfield, CT · ~88 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
16.9
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

River Street School - Birken runs at 1204% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Handicapped, schools for, elementary or secondary workplace, earning a grade F.

River Street School - Birken: 16.9 TCR = 1204% of Handicapped, schools for, elementary or secondary BLS 1.4 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

River Street School - Birken safety composite

River Street School - Birken scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 3%), 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 16.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.0

2016→2021

River Street School - Birken injury rate improved

River Street School - Birken's TCR fell 8.0 from 23.4 in 2016 to 15.4 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2017 at 90.3 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=23.4 · 2017=90.3 · 2018=15.3 · 2019=26.6 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=15.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Bloomfield, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 16.9 · 1204% of ind

  • DART 10.7 DART
  • RANK #351/381
  • PHOTO South Elementary Sch…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 152 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: South Elementary School (0.0 TCR gap)

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River Street School - Birken in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows River Street School - Birken averages 16.9 TCR (1204% of the Handicapped, schools for, elementary or secondary BLS benchmark).

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

River Street School - Birken TCR series: 2016=23.4 · 2017=90.3 · 2018=15.3 · 2019=26.6 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=15.4 · BLS 1.4

Where River Street School - Birken falls in its industry

3,374 Handicapped, schools for, elem establishments

Safer than 3% 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 #351 safest of 381 Handicapped, schools for, elem employers in Connecticut.

River Street School - Birken (88 employees, TCR 16.9) 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 River Street School - Birken
River Street School - Birken (88 employees, TCR 16.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

River Street School - Birken has more employees than the Handicapped, schools for, elementary or 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
2021 15.4 10.7 13 0 0
2020 3.6 3.6 3 0 0
2019 26.6 22.9 22 0 0
2018 15.3 15.3 13 0 0
2017 90.3 14.5 80 1 0
2016 23.4 18.9 21 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · CT · Bloomfield

3,374 Handicapped, schools for, elementary or secondary employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 107 employers in Bloomfield, 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 South Elementary School 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR 544 Paramount Drive, Raynham, MA 02767 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Serendipity Center, Inc 16.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Riverbend 16.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE White Flower Farm Torrington 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Service Maintenance Company Inc 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Camsan Inc 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE Shawns Lawns Inc. 2021 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bloomfield HomeGoods DC 1,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR H.G. Conn. Merchants,LLC 1,168 FTE
CITY-NEAR Otis Elevator Company-Otis Service Center 532 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kamatics Corporation 505 FTE
NAT-TCR 001/Hayward 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sail Energy, LLC DBA Pioneer Oil & Propane 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1955 16.9 TCR
NAT-TCR TPI-Yard 16.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Carlisle Wide Plank Floors, Inc. 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Owen Valley Health Center 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peace River Center - BCSU 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allison Care Center 88 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: 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.