6-8School · Connecticut

West Side Middle School

Waterbury, CT · ~123 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.5
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

West Side Middle School runs at 466% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical 6-8School workplace, earning a grade F.

West Side Middle School: 6.5 TCR = 466% of 6-8School BLS 1.4 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

West Side Middle School safety composite

West Side Middle School scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 13%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.29 per 100 workers

Safer than 13% 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

West Side Middle School: 3.9 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 11.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0.81× in 2023

West Side Middle School's TCR rose 1.4 from 3.9 in 2016 to 5.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 11.9 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade F · TCR 6.5 · 466% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #241/381
  • PHOTO Midwest School Servi…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 46 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Midwest School Services, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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West Side Middle School in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows West Side Middle School averages 6.5 TCR (466% of the 6-8School BLS benchmark).

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

West Side Middle School TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2017=9 · 2018=11.9 · 2019=9.5 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=2.1 · 2022=8.5 · 2023=5.3 · BLS 1.4

Where West Side Middle School falls in its industry

3,374 6-8School establishments

Safer than 23% 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 #241 safest of 381 6-8School employers in Connecticut.

West Side Middle School (123 employees, TCR 6.5) 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 West Side Middle School
West Side Middle School (123 employees, TCR 6.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

West Side Middle School has more employees than the 6-8School 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
2023 5.3 5.3 5 0 0
2022 8.5 7.4 8 0 0
2021 2.1 2.1 2 0 0
2020 2.1 2.1 2 0 0
2019 9.5 7.1 8 0 0
2018 11.9 10.8 11 0 0
2017 9.0 9.0 7 0 0
2016 3.9 3.9 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · CT · Waterbury

3,374 6-8School 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 Midwest School Services, Inc. 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR School District of Sheboygan Falls 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Whitlock Flexible Learning Center 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1459-0118 6.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE C. Cowles & Company & Subsidaries 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE COWLES OPERATING COMPANY 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE 100610 123 FTE
STATE-SIZE Big Y Foods, Inc. Guilford 123 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 Acme Maonco Corp 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Gulf Shores 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Enrique A Cruz Masonry Inc 6.5 TCR
NAT-TCR SP - Spokane 6.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hatzel & Buehler Inc. - New York 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE KPC Promise Hopsital of Phoenix 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE KPC Promise Hospital of Salt Lake City 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE State Mechanical 123 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.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.