Elementary and secondary schools · Connecticut

Watertown Public Schools

Watertown, CT · ~503 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Watertown Public Schools runs at 399% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Elementary and secondary schools workplace, earning a grade F.

Watertown Public Schools: 5.6 TCR = 399% of Elementary and secondary schools BLS 1.4 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Watertown Public Schools safety composite

Watertown Public Schools scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 30%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 30% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.91 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

−2.7

2016→2020

Watertown Public Schools injury rate improved

Watertown Public Schools's TCR fell 2.7 from 5.2 in 2016 to 2.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 7.7 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.34× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.2 · 2017=7.2 · 2018=5.3 · 2019=7.7 · 2020=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Watertown, CT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 5.6 · 399% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #211/381
  • PHOTO BEMIDJI HIGH SCHOOL
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 83 inj
  • SIZE ~503 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BEMIDJI HIGH SCHOOL (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Connecticut employers → · Look up another →

Watertown Public Schools in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Watertown Public Schools averages 5.6 TCR (399% 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

Watertown Public Schools TCR series: 2016=5.2 · 2017=7.2 · 2018=5.3 · 2019=7.7 · 2020=2.5 · BLS 1.4

Where Watertown Public Schools falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary and secondary schoo establishments

Safer than 30% 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 #211 safest of 381 Elementary and secondary schoo employers in Connecticut.

Watertown Public Schools (503 employees, TCR 5.6) 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 Watertown Public Schools
Watertown Public Schools (503 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Watertown Public Schools 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
2020 2.5 1.9 8 0 0
2019 7.7 4.7 23 0 0
2018 5.3 2.3 16 0 0
2017 7.2 4.9 21 1 0
2016 5.2 2.6 15 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · CT · Watertown

3,374 Elementary and secondary schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 55 employers in Watertown, 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 BEMIDJI HIGH SCHOOL 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Reed Elementary School 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bucks Hill Elementary School 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gemma Services 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE PerkinElmer Health Sciences, Inc. 503 FTE
STATE-SIZE EdAdvance LITCHFIELD 503 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kamatics Corporation 505 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMZL : DBL1 501 FTE
CITY-NEAR CTWAT - WATERBURY 573 FTE
CITY-NEAR WATERBURY (CTWAT) 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR Global Steering Systems 359 FTE
CITY-NEAR 101 232 FTE
NAT-TCR CrossCountry - Eagan 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Durham Hensley Health and Rehabilitation 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Pacific Production Plumbing - San Diego 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Performance Metro NY - 0610 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Public Health Department 503 FTE
NAT-SIZE EHP-Univera Healthcare 503 FTE
NAT-SIZE Memorial Hospital of Tampa 503 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sutter Health System Office (470-3600) 503 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: 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.