Cable, nonferrous, insulated, or armored, made from purchased nonferrous wire · Massachusetts

AFC Cable Systems

New Bedford, MA · ~135 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

AFC Cable Systems runs at 22% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Cable, nonferrous, insulated, or armored, made from purchased nonferrous wire workplace, earning a grade A.

AFC Cable Systems: 0.7 TCR = 22% of Cable, nonferrous, insulated, or armored, made from purchased nonferrous wire BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AFC Cable Systems safety composite

AFC Cable Systems scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 88% 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).

B

77/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.72 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 83% 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

−0.7

2022→2024

AFC Cable Systems injury rate improved

AFC Cable Systems's TCR fell 0.7 from 0.7 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 1.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=0.7 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335929 · New Bedford, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.7 · 22% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #2/20
  • PHOTO Saint Augustine
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~135 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Saint Augustine (0.0 TCR gap)

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AFC Cable Systems in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AFC Cable Systems averages 0.7 TCR (22% of the Cable, nonferrous, insulated, or armored, made from purchased nonferrous wire BLS benchmark).

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

AFC Cable Systems TCR series: 2022=0.7 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where AFC Cable Systems falls in its industry

144 Cable, nonferrous, insulated, establishments

Safer than 88% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 20 Cable, nonferrous, insulated, employers in Massachusetts.

AFC Cable Systems (135 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate AFC Cable Systems
AFC Cable Systems (135 employees, TCR 0.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 97 employees and a TCR of 2.3

AFC Cable Systems has more employees than the Cable, nonferrous, insulated, or armored median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 1.4 0.0 2 0 0
2022 0.7 0.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335929 · MA · New Bedford

144 Cable, nonferrous, insulated, or armored, made from purchased nonferrous wire employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 109 employers in New Bedford, 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 Saint Augustine 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACT Lighting-MA 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Prysmian Group-Draka elevator-Distribution Center 0.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR US779: Flaherty 0.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Charles Services 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE P. Gioioso and Sons, Inc. 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kala Pharmaceuticals, Inc. 135 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rexa Inc. 135 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Luke's Hospital 2,204 FTE
CITY-NEAR High Point & Affiliated Organizations 1,264 FTE
CITY-NEAR JAMCO 690 FTE
CITY-NEAR LifeStream 644 FTE
NAT-TCR Coahoma Electric Power Association - Coahoma 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR LandSouth Construction, LLC 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Virginia Everywhere LLC (dba All Points Broadband) 0.7 TCR
NAT-TCR MS Ultrasonic Technology, LLC- Howell, MI 0.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Howe, Inc. 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crest Foods Store 4 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE Farm and Fleet of Rice Lake 135 FTE
NAT-SIZE EV Construction 135 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, 2022. 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.