Elementary and secondary schools · Connecticut

Whiting Lane Elementary

West Hartford, CT · ~123 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
19.7
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Whiting Lane Elementary runs at 1408% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Elementary and secondary schools workplace, earning a grade F.

Whiting Lane Elementary: 19.7 TCR = 1408% of Elementary and secondary schools BLS 1.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Whiting Lane Elementary safety composite

Whiting Lane Elementary scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

19/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 19.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Whiting Lane Elementary: 3.7 → 35.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 35.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.24× in 2024

Whiting Lane Elementary's TCR rose 31.9 from 3.7 in 2023 to 35.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.24× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · West Hartford, CT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 19.7 · 1408% of ind

  • DART 4.8 DART
  • RANK #364/381
  • PHOTO Great Neck Elementary
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 33 inj
  • SIZE ~123 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Great Neck Elementary (0.0 TCR gap)

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Whiting Lane Elementary in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Whiting Lane Elementary averages 19.7 TCR (1408% 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

Whiting Lane Elementary TCR series: 2023=3.7 · 2024=35.7 · BLS 1.4

Where Whiting Lane Elementary falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary and secondary schoo establishments

Safer than 2% 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 #364 safest of 381 Elementary and secondary schoo employers in Connecticut.

Whiting Lane Elementary (123 employees, TCR 19.7) 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 Whiting Lane Elementary
Whiting Lane Elementary (123 employees, TCR 19.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Whiting Lane Elementary 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
2024 35.7 4.8 30 0 0
2023 3.7 2.5 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · CT · West Hartford

3,374 Elementary and secondary schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 118 employers in West Hartford, 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 Great Neck Elementary 19.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eastern Sierra Unified School District 19.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR WINDSOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS/CLOVER ELEMENTARY 19.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Valley Training Center Stockton West 19.8 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 Triumph Group 537 FTE
CITY-NEAR Legrand Wiremold West Hartford 524 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Hebrew Center for Health and Rehabilitation 437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Colt's Manufacturing Company LLC 425 FTE
NAT-TCR Caelc - El Centro 19.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 3865 - Chicago Pulaski 19.7 TCR
NAT-TCR The Truss Co Building and Supply 19.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Transcare 19.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE STR0013 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Northern Kentucky Water District 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shoreline Healthcare Center 123 FTE
NAT-SIZE 705 Evansville West 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: 2024, 2023. 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.