Academies, elementary or secondary · Ohio

Walnut Springs Middle School - Wcs

Westerville, OH · ~91 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
4.4
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Walnut Springs Middle School - Wcs runs at 311% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Academies, elementary or secondary workplace, earning a grade F.

Walnut Springs Middle School - Wcs: 4.4 TCR = 311% of Academies, elementary or secondary BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Walnut Springs Middle School - Wcs safety composite

Walnut Springs Middle School - Wcs scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 32%), 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 4.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% 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

Walnut Springs Middle School - Wcs: 1.4 → 7.3 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 7.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.56× in 2019

Walnut Springs Middle School - Wcs's TCR rose 5.9 from 1.4 in 2016 to 7.3 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Westerville, OH ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 4.4 · 311% of ind

  • DART 2.4 DART
  • RANK #18/32
  • PHOTO JERRY ZUCKER MIDDLE …
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: JERRY ZUCKER MIDDLE SCHOOL (0.0 TCR gap)

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Walnut Springs Middle School - Wcs in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Walnut Springs Middle School - Wcs averages 4.4 TCR (311% 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

Walnut Springs Middle School - Wcs TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2019=7.3 · BLS 1.4

Where Walnut Springs Middle School - Wcs falls in its industry

3,374 Academies, elementary or secon establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Ohio alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 32 Academies, elementary or secon employers in Ohio.

Walnut Springs Middle School - Wcs (91 employees, TCR 4.4) 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 Walnut Springs Middle School - Wcs
Walnut Springs Middle School - Wcs (91 employees, TCR 4.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Walnut Springs Middle School - Wcs 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
2019 7.3 2.4 3 0 0
2016 1.4 1.4 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · OH · Westerville

3,374 Academies, elementary or secondary employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,650 rated employers in Ohio with headcount on file · 141 employers in Westerville, OH · 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 JERRY ZUCKER MIDDLE SCHOOL 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 008 - Rhoades Elementary 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Northeast Service Cooperative 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Richmond Community Schools-Warner Maintenance 4.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Gahanna 825 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gilbane Building Company Columbus 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE R.E. Middleton Construction Main office 91 FTE
STATE-SIZE Enterprise Roofing & Sheet Metal Company 91 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mount Carmel St. Ann's Hospital 1,966 FTE
CITY-NEAR Westerville - 360 Westar Boulevard 1,505 FTE
CITY-NEAR Mid-City Electric 457 FTE
CITY-NEAR NA Svc ERS 391 FTE
NAT-TCR 763 - Phoenix 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0005 1480 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0019 2690 4.4 TCR
NAT-TCR H&H Swiss Machine Products Inc 4.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hilldrup Companies - Richmond 606 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE AristaCare @ Hillsdale Park 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE PMCO Eugene 91 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peak Home Care Inc dba Home Instead Senior Care 91 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: 2019, 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.