Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing · Connecticut

20 Shurtape Specialty Coating, LLC

New Hartford, CT · ~57 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

20 Shurtape Specialty Coating, LLC runs at 190% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

20 Shurtape Specialty Coating, LLC: 6.3 TCR = 190% of Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

20 Shurtape Specialty Coating, LLC safety composite

20 Shurtape Specialty Coating, LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 10% of industry peers

DART rate
F 6.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

20 Shurtape Specialty Coating, LLC: 5.7 → 6.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.1× in 2017

20 Shurtape Specialty Coating, LLC's TCR rose 1.2 from 5.7 in 2016 to 6.9 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 1.1× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322220 · New Hartford, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 190% of ind

  • DART 6.9 DART
  • RANK #6/7
  • PHOTO Applied Products, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~57 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Applied Products, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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20 Shurtape Specialty Coating, LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 20 Shurtape Specialty Coating, LLC averages 6.3 TCR (190% of the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

20 Shurtape Specialty Coating, LLC TCR series: 2016=5.7 · 2017=6.9 · BLS 3.3

Where 20 Shurtape Specialty Coating, LLC falls in its industry

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat establishments

Safer than 10% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 7 Paper Bag and Coated and Treat employers in Connecticut.

20 Shurtape Specialty Coating, LLC (57 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate 20 Shurtape Specialty Coating, LLC
20 Shurtape Specialty Coating, LLC (57 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 100 employees and a TCR of 2.8

20 Shurtape Specialty Coating, LLC has fewer employees than the Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper M median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2017 6.9 6.9 5 0 0
2016 5.7 0.0 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322220 · CT · New Hartford

349 Paper Bag and Coated and Treated Paper Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 5 employers in New 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 Applied Products, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stewart Sutherland 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR A Group Inc dba MPI Technologies 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fischer Paper Products, Inc. 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rogers Orchards 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fusco Corporation 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Main Office, Shop, Yard & Jobsites 57 FTE
STATE-SIZE Summit Masonry and Building Restoration 57 FTE
CITY-NEAR inertia dynamics 226 FTE
CITY-NEAR 6218 NEW HARTFORD 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR STCT Shurtape Connecticut 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR DATTCO - New Hartford 25 FTE
NAT-TCR Rock Wool Manufacturing Company Leeds 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR New Stanton (Panst) 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Syracuse Air Ramp (Nyhan) 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Cibolo TX Truss 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE N and r of Jefferson City LLC 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Yokohama Industries Americas Inc. Division 5 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Legends - Charlotte PNC Amphitheate 57 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sandy Pines Wilderness Trails, Inc 57 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: 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.