485410 School and Employee Bus Transportation · Connecticut

WATERBURY

Waterbury, CT · ~79 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

WATERBURY runs at 226% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical 485410 School and Employee Bus Transportation workplace, earning a grade F.

WATERBURY: 7.7 TCR = 226% of 485410 School and Employee Bus Transportation BLS 3.4 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

WATERBURY safety composite

WATERBURY scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 34% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.84 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

WATERBURY: 12.1 → 21.3 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 21.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.28× in 2024

WATERBURY's TCR rose 9.2 from 12.1 in 2016 to 21.3 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 454310 · Waterbury, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 226% of ind

  • DART 9.8 DART
  • RANK #14/21
  • PHOTO Honesdale Branch
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 62 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Honesdale Branch (0.0 TCR gap)

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WATERBURY in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows WATERBURY averages 7.7 TCR (226% of the 485410 School and Employee Bus Transportation BLS benchmark).

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

WATERBURY TCR series: 2016=12.1 · 2017=8.7 · 2018=11.4 · 2019=3.7 · 2020=0 · 2021=3.3 · 2022=3 · 2023=5.8 · 2024=21.3 · BLS 3.4

Where WATERBURY falls in its industry

366 485410 School and Employee Bus establishments

Safer than 34% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 21 485410 School and Employee Bus employers in Connecticut.

WATERBURY (79 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1 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 020406080100 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate WATERBURY
WATERBURY (79 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 33 employees and a TCR of 6.1

WATERBURY has more employees than the 485410 School and Employee Bus Transport median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.1. 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
2024 21.3 9.8 13 0 0
2023 5.8 5.8 2 0 0
2022 3.0 3.0 1 0 0
2021 3.3 3.3 1 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.7 3.7 1 0 0
2018 11.4 7.2 15 4 0
2017 8.7 5.8 12 3 0
2016 12.1 5.8 17 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

454310 · CT · Waterbury

366 485410 School and Employee Bus Transportation 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 Honesdale Branch 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Petro Long Island - Plainview 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR R11 Fairfield, ME 7.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR AmeriGas (ACE - Western) 7.8 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 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 Roloff Construction 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR CHEP Livonia Service Center (USVI) 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 800 - Warehouse - Williamsburg 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR coin division 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0698 Park Ridge 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Michigan Avenue Service Center 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0731 Sandy Springs 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Czarnowski-Detroit 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: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.