Ball bearings manufacturing · Connecticut

Abbott Ball Co

West Hartford, CT · ~68 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Abbott Ball Co runs at 382% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Ball bearings manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Abbott Ball Co: 12.6 TCR = 382% of Ball bearings manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Abbott Ball Co safety composite

Abbott Ball Co scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.61 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.41 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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

Abbott Ball Co: 9.3 → 19.8 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 19.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.14× in 2023

Abbott Ball Co's TCR rose 10.5 from 9.3 in 2016 to 19.8 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.14× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332991 · West Hartford, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.6 · 382% of ind

  • DART 14.4 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO Miyake Forging North…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Miyake Forging North America (0.1 TCR gap)

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Abbott Ball Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Abbott Ball Co averages 12.6 TCR (382% of the Ball bearings manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Abbott Ball Co TCR series: 2016=9.3 · 2021=15.7 · 2022=5.6 · 2023=19.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Abbott Ball Co falls in its industry

125 Ball bearings manufacturing establishments

Safer than 4% 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 #9 safest of 9 Ball bearings manufacturing employers in Connecticut.

Abbott Ball Co (68 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 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 Abbott Ball Co
Abbott Ball Co (68 employees, TCR 12.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Abbott Ball Co has fewer employees than the Ball bearings manufacturing 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
2023 19.8 14.4 9 2 0
2022 5.6 5.6 4 0 0
2021 15.7 9.2 11 1 0
2016 9.3 1.6 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332991 · CT · West Hartford

125 Ball bearings manufacturing 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 Miyake Forging North America 12.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ultra Defense Corp JC 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Nakatetsu Machining 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR NSK Alliance 15.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Pat Munger Construction Co. Inc. 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mizzy Construction, Inc. 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Earthlight Technologies LLC 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Industrial Palllet LLC 68 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 Waters of McKenzie 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 2566 Mor112 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Royal Crown Bottling Co. of Winchester, Inc. 12.6 TCR
NAT-TCR East Coast Building Services LLC 12.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Automatic Building Controls, LLC 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Energy Economics, Inc. 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Premier Building Group 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Caloosa Cooling Lee County LLC 68 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, 2022, 2021, 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.