Leather footwear manufacturing · Massachusetts

Alden Shoe Co.

Middleboro, MA · ~87 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
Subscribe to safety-record updates (RSS)

The verdict

Alden Shoe Co. runs at 125% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Leather footwear manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Alden Shoe Co.: 4.1 TCR = 125% of Leather footwear manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Alden Shoe Co. safety composite

Alden Shoe Co. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 58% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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).

D

52/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 4.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 58% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

Alden Shoe Co.: 3.3 → 7.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0.69× in 2024

Alden Shoe Co.'s TCR rose 3.8 from 3.3 in 2020 to 7.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.69× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 316210 · Middleboro, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.1 · 125% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #2/5
  • PHOTO US Footwear Holdings…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 7 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: US Footwear Holdings LLC - Rock Island, IL (0.0 TCR gap)

Read with this employer → · Industry book → · Massachusetts employers → · Look up another →

Alden Shoe Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Alden Shoe Co. averages 4.1 TCR (125% of the Leather footwear manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Alden Shoe Co. TCR series: 2020=3.3 · 2021=3.2 · 2023=2.9 · 2024=7.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Alden Shoe Co. falls in its industry

62 Leather footwear manufacturing establishments

Safer than 58% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

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 5 Leather footwear manufacturing employers in Massachusetts.

Alden Shoe Co. (87 employees, TCR 4.1) among 28 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 29 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 Alden Shoe Co.
Alden Shoe Co. (87 employees, TCR 4.1) among 28 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Alden Shoe Co. has fewer employees than the Leather footwear manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2024 7.1 2.9 3 2 0
2023 2.9 1.4 1 1 0
2021 3.2 3.2 2 0 0
2020 3.3 1.6 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

316210 · MA · Middleboro

62 Leather footwear manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 37 employers in Middleboro, 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 US Footwear Holdings LLC - Rock Island, IL 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR KNS International 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Footwear Industries of TN 4.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lawrence Manufacturing 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Construction Management & Builders, Inc. 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE D'Allessandro Corp. 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE B-G Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE North shore mechanical contractors 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR Christmas Tree Shops Middleboro eService 7098 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR OCY - Middleboro 237 FTE
CITY-NEAR Christmas Tree Shops Middleboro DC 7650 186 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ocean Spray Middleboro Processing Facility 178 FTE
NAT-TCR Thybar Corporation 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Alfa Laval Inc. Broken Arrow (loc code: ALACEC) 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Milwaukee Cylinder 4.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Float-on, LLC 4.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Courtyard at Cristwood 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Idsnd - Sandpoint Center 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meroc - Rockland 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Waelm - Elma Center 87 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, 2021, 2020. 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.