Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade · Massachusetts

Absolute Metal Finishing

Norwood, MA · ~51 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Absolute Metal Finishing runs at 48% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade workplace, earning a grade A.

Absolute Metal Finishing: 1.6 TCR = 48% of Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Absolute Metal Finishing safety composite

Absolute Metal Finishing scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 83% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.59 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−3.2

2023→2024

Absolute Metal Finishing injury rate improved

Absolute Metal Finishing's TCR fell 3.2 from 3.2 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=3.2 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332813 · Norwood, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 48% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #7/26
  • PHOTO TDF Metal Finishing0…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: TDF Metal Finishing0427 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Absolute Metal Finishing in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Absolute Metal Finishing averages 1.6 TCR (48% of the Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Absolute Metal Finishing TCR series: 2023=3.2 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Absolute Metal Finishing falls in its industry

585 Electroplating metals and form establishments

Safer than 83% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 26 Electroplating metals and form employers in Massachusetts.

Absolute Metal Finishing (51 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0 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 0200400600 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Absolute Metal Finishing
Absolute Metal Finishing (51 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 56 employees and a TCR of 4.0

Absolute Metal Finishing has fewer employees than the Electroplating metals and formed product median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.0. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.2 1.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332813 · MA · Norwood

585 Electroplating metals and formed products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 79 employers in Norwood, MA · 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 TDF Metal Finishing0427 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lodor 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR North Penn Plating and Polishing 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Artazn LLC 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Benevento Sand & Stone Corp 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Great Day Boston 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE EJ Paving Company, Inc 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lazaro Paving Corp. 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR HallKeen Assisted Living 717 FTE
CITY-NEAR MANOR - NORWOOD 660 FTE
CITY-NEAR NORWOOD (MANOR) 660 FTE
CITY-NEAR Home Market Foods 428 FTE
NAT-TCR Jn Trucking Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Otis Elevator Company-Milwaukee 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR R.F. Knox Company, Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Aztec Masonry Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Seattle Pacific Industries, Inc 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Katz Americas North 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE AC Hotel Atlanta Downtown 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA Jacksonville 2011 Rental Car Ln 51 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: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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