Elementary and secondary schools · Connecticut

Whitney High School West

Hamden, CT · ~33 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.6
Avg TCR
1.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Whitney High School West runs at 754% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Elementary and secondary schools workplace, earning a grade F.

Whitney High School West: 10.6 TCR = 754% of Elementary and secondary schools BLS 1.4 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Whitney High School West safety composite

Whitney High School West scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 10%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.55 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.88 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.1

2016→2018

Whitney High School West injury rate improved

Whitney High School West's TCR fell 4.1 from 8.9 in 2016 to 4.9 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2017 at 17.8 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.9 · 2017=17.8 · 2018=4.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 611110 · Hamden, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.6 · 754% of ind

  • DART 4.9 DART
  • RANK #316/381
  • PHOTO Windom Area Central
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Windom Area Central (0.0 TCR gap)

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Whitney High School West in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Whitney High School West averages 10.6 TCR (754% 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

Whitney High School West TCR series: 2016=8.9 · 2017=17.8 · 2018=4.9 · BLS 1.4

Where Whitney High School West falls in its industry

3,374 Elementary and secondary schoo establishments

Safer than 10% 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 #316 safest of 381 Elementary and secondary schoo employers in Connecticut.

Whitney High School West (33 employees, TCR 10.6) 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 Whitney High School West
Whitney High School West (33 employees, TCR 10.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 3.8

Whitney High School West has fewer 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
2018 4.9 4.9 1 0 0
2017 17.8 17.8 4 0 0
2016 8.9 4.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

611110 · CT · Hamden

3,374 Elementary and secondary schools employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 80 employers in Hamden, 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 Windom Area Central 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodland School 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Central Maine Learning Center 10.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Community Education 10.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Greater New Haven WPCA 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greater New Haven Water Pollution Control Authority - Administrative Bldg. 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Nutmeg Companies, Inc. 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE LaFramboise Well Drilling, Inc. 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR CTtransit 1,290 FTE
CITY-NEAR Whitney Center 286 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hamden Markets LLC, dba ShopRite of Hamden 261 FTE
CITY-NEAR Arden House 226 FTE
NAT-TCR Eli's Cheesecake Company 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0029 2176 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Southern Worcester County Administration Office 10.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 3495-11DA027 10.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Bellevue-150 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pullet/Breeder Facility 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sundance Dental Lab 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Covenant Place of Tulsa 33 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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