Academies, elementary or secondary · Ohio

Westerville South High School - Wcs

Westerville, OH · ~160 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Westerville South High School - Wcs runs at 153% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Academies, elementary or secondary workplace, earning a grade D.

Westerville South High School - Wcs: 2.1 TCR = 153% of Academies, elementary or secondary BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Westerville South High School - Wcs safety composite

Westerville South High School - Wcs scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

C

70/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

Westerville South High School - Wcs: 1.4 → 2.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 2.9 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2019

Westerville South High School - Wcs's TCR rose 1.5 from 1.4 in 2016 to 2.9 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade D · TCR 2.1 · 153% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #4/32
  • PHOTO Austin Public School…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~160 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Austin Public Schools ISD#492-Neveln School (0.0 TCR gap)

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Westerville South High School - Wcs in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Westerville South High School - Wcs averages 2.1 TCR (153% 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

Westerville South High School - Wcs TCR series: 2016=1.4 · 2019=2.9 · BLS 1.4

Where Westerville South High School - Wcs falls in its industry

3,374 Academies, elementary or secon establishments

Safer than 75% 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 #4 safest of 32 Academies, elementary or secon employers in Ohio.

Westerville South High School - Wcs (160 employees, TCR 2.1) 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 Westerville South High School - Wcs
Westerville South High School - Wcs (160 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Westerville South High School - Wcs has more employees than the Academies, elementary or secondary 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
2019 2.9 0.0 2 0 0
2016 1.4 0.7 2 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 Austin Public Schools ISD#492-Neveln School 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plymouth Community School Corporation 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Aiken Elementary School 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR LUCY BECKHAM HIGH SCHOOL 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE W. H. Sammis Plant 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gahanna 850 Building 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE Al Neyer, LLC 160 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Street Gourmet 160 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 Dallas Fort Worth Int. Airport 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 224 - Crestwood-IL 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Gosnold, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR DBA Ashley Furniture Homestores- Palm Desert 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Great Plains of Republic County DBA Republic County Hospital 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE SYG-Kansas City 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE Detroit - CR 160 FTE
NAT-SIZE US IL Kankakee Plant 160 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.