Furniture hardware, metal, manufacturing · Connecticut

411 Austin Road

Waterbury, CT · ~56 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

411 Austin Road runs at 203% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Furniture hardware, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

411 Austin Road: 6.7 TCR = 203% of Furniture hardware, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

411 Austin Road safety composite

411 Austin Road scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 15%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.71 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 17% 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

−2.3

2016→2020

411 Austin Road injury rate improved

411 Austin Road's TCR fell 2.3 from 7.8 in 2016 to 5.5 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2018 at 9.6 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=7.8 · 2017=3.9 · 2018=9.6 · 2020=5.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332510 · Waterbury, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 203% of ind

  • DART 3.7 DART
  • RANK #6/8
  • PHOTO SMC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SMC (0.0 TCR gap)

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411 Austin Road in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows 411 Austin Road averages 6.7 TCR (203% of the Furniture hardware, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

411 Austin Road TCR series: 2016=7.8 · 2017=3.9 · 2018=9.6 · 2020=5.5 · BLS 3.3

Where 411 Austin Road falls in its industry

189 Furniture hardware, metal, man establishments

Safer than 15% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

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 8 Furniture hardware, metal, man employers in Connecticut.

411 Austin Road (56 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 411 Austin Road
411 Austin Road (56 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 82 employees and a TCR of 3.4

411 Austin Road has fewer employees than the Furniture hardware, metal, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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
2020 5.5 3.7 3 0 0
2018 9.6 1.9 2 3 0
2017 3.9 3.9 2 0 0
2016 7.8 3.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332510 · CT · Waterbury

189 Furniture hardware, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 218 employers in Waterbury, 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 SMC 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Colson Saint Joseph 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hercules Industries, Inc 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Velko Hinge Inc. 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Morganti Group Inc CT 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carlin Contracting Co., Inc. 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE New England Yankee Construction, LLC 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Longhini Sausage 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Mary's Hospital 1,654 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waterbury Hospital 1,472 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hartford-Saint Mary's Hospital 1,292 FTE
CITY-NEAR Naugatuck Valley Community College 1,277 FTE
NAT-TCR NMG Industrial 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Warren Township Road District 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Plant 2 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR O'Donnell Corporation 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ritescreen 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Appleton Group, LLC 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Premier Building Group Collective 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE mfg 56 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: 2020, 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.