Machine shops · Connecticut

180 Surf Avenue

Stratford, CT · ~48 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

180 Surf Avenue runs at 100% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade C.

180 Surf Avenue: 3.3 TCR = 100% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

180 Surf Avenue safety composite

180 Surf Avenue scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.3 per 100 workers

Safer than 53% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

180 Surf Avenue: 0.0 → 2.0 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

180 Surf Avenue's TCR rose 2.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Stratford, CT AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 100% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #14/32
  • PHOTO Ross Reels
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ross Reels (0.0 TCR gap)

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180 Surf Avenue in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 180 Surf Avenue averages 3.3 TCR (100% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

180 Surf Avenue TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=4.3 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=5.5 · 2023=2 · BLS 3.3

Where 180 Surf Avenue falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 53% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 32 Machine shops employers in Connecticut.

180 Surf Avenue (48 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 180 Surf Avenue
180 Surf Avenue (48 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

180 Surf Avenue has more employees than the Machine shops median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 2.0 0.0 1 0 0
2019 5.5 2.8 2 0 0
2018 4.8 0.0 2 0 0
2017 4.3 2.1 2 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · CT · Stratford

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 119 employers in Stratford, 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 Ross Reels 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR M-C Fabrication, Inc 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Watson Machine Corporation 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chesapeake Machining & Fabrication, Inc. 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE CAVCOMM LLC 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE NEMSI-Trumbull 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fairfield 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Twelve Percent 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation US CT Stratford Main St (5225) 6,906 FTE
CITY-NEAR Lockheed Martin Corporation US CT Stratford 6900 Main St (5225) 6,665 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northeast Medical Group, Inc. 2,333 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northeast Medical Group - New Haven 1,612 FTE
NAT-TCR TMMK 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Edlen Electrical Exhibition Services Miami 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Hotel 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Contech Sdfmp 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Enterprise Casting Corporation 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cambridge House of Maryvi 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sensei Wellness Holdings Inc 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ihop 1441 48 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, 2019, 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.