9-12 School · Connecticut

Waterbury Career Academy HS

Waterbury, CT · ~93 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Waterbury Career Academy HS runs at 246% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical 9-12 School workplace, earning a grade F.

Waterbury Career Academy HS: 3.4 TCR = 246% of 9-12 School BLS 1.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Waterbury Career Academy HS safety composite

Waterbury Career Academy HS scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 54% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 20%), 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 3.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% 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

−1.7

2016→2023

Waterbury Career Academy HS injury rate improved

Waterbury Career Academy HS's TCR fell 1.7 from 7.5 in 2016 to 5.8 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 7.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.5 · 2017=7.5 · 2018=1.5 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=0.0 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=5.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 3.4 · 246% of ind

  • DART 3.9 DART
  • RANK #130/381
  • PHOTO Dist. Wide
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 17 inj
  • SIZE ~93 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Dist. Wide (0.0 TCR gap)

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Waterbury Career Academy HS in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Waterbury Career Academy HS averages 3.4 TCR (246% of the 9-12 School BLS benchmark).

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

Waterbury Career Academy HS TCR series: 2016=7.5 · 2017=7.5 · 2018=1.5 · 2019=5.2 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=5.8 · BLS 1.4

Where Waterbury Career Academy HS falls in its industry

3,374 9-12 School establishments

Safer than 54% 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 #130 safest of 381 9-12 School employers in Connecticut.

Waterbury Career Academy HS (93 employees, TCR 3.4) 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 Waterbury Career Academy HS
Waterbury Career Academy HS (93 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Waterbury Career Academy HS has more employees than the 9-12 School median and a lower 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
2023 5.8 3.9 3 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 5.2 3.5 3 0 0
2018 1.5 0.0 1 0 0
2017 7.5 0.0 5 0 0
2016 7.5 0.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · CT · Waterbury

3,374 9-12 School employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 218 employers in Waterbury, 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 Dist. Wide 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mount Prospect Academy 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR ANSONIA BOARD OF EDUCATION 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Barnum High School 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Henkels & McCoy, Inc - Granby, CT 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE NY-Conn 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carris Reels CT 93 FTE
STATE-SIZE CONN STONE SUPPLIES, INC 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Mary's Hospital 1,654 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waterbury Hospital 1,472 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hartford-Saint Mary's Hospital 1,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Naugatuck Valley Community College 1,277 FTE
NAT-TCR Lantmannen Unibake 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Semicoa 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunderland Road #151 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Highland Park #222 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Andover Office 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Portland, or - 335 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE Market Basket #34 93 FTE
NAT-SIZE LINC 5002 (Ankeny - F) 93 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: 2023, 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.