Elementary and secondary schools · Connecticut

Thomas Edison Middle School

Meriden, CT · ~79 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.0
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Thomas Edison Middle School runs at 859% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Elementary and secondary schools workplace, earning a grade F.

Thomas Edison Middle School: 12.0 TCR = 859% of Elementary and secondary schools BLS 1.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Thomas Edison Middle School safety composite

Thomas Edison Middle School scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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 12.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% of industry peers

DART rate
F 27.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

Thomas Edison Middle School: 4.8 → 27.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 27.8 TCR · DART/TCR 2.31× in 2018

Thomas Edison Middle School's TCR rose 23.0 from 4.8 in 2016 to 27.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 2.31× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 12.0 · 859% of ind

  • DART 27.8 DART
  • RANK #331/381
  • PHOTO HL-O Elementary
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: HL-O Elementary (0.0 TCR gap)

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Thomas Edison Middle School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Thomas Edison Middle School averages 12.0 TCR (859% 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

Thomas Edison Middle School TCR series: 2016=4.8 · 2017=3.5 · 2018=27.8 · BLS 1.4

Where Thomas Edison Middle School falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary and secondary schoo establishments

Safer than 7% 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 #331 safest of 381 Elementary and secondary schoo employers in Connecticut.

Thomas Edison Middle School (79 employees, TCR 12.0) 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 Thomas Edison Middle School
Thomas Edison Middle School (79 employees, TCR 12.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Thomas Edison Middle School 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
2018 27.8 27.8 2 0 0
2017 3.5 1.7 2 0 0
2016 4.8 1.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · CT · Meriden

3,374 Elementary and secondary schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 115 employers in Meriden, 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 HL-O Elementary 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Takena Elementary School 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1459-0124 12.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Board of Education - Facilities 12.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Otis Elevator Company-Connecticut 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sealed air Corporation danbury 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lynn Welding Co., Inc. 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE Southwick & Meister Inc. 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hartford 1,670 FTE
CITY-NEAR MIDSTATE MEDICAL CENTER 1,220 FTE
CITY-NEAR MRDNCT04 566 FTE
CITY-NEAR Radio Frequency Systems - Meriden, CT 402 FTE
NAT-TCR Lakeland Rehab & Healthcare Center 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0029 2349 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakeland Center (Fllwa) 12.0 TCR
NAT-TCR SF - Suffern CDC/CSC 12.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE BR Louisiana Station 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Adams Home, Inc. 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shopko Store #177 (Green Bay, WI (Suamico)) 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shopko Store #17 (St Cloud, MN (West)) 79 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: 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.