Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing · Massachusetts

AVS Inc.

Ayer, MA · ~53 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

AVS Inc. runs at 126% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

AVS Inc.: 4.2 TCR = 126% of Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

AVS Inc. safety composite

AVS Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 43% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 1%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.17 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

AVS Inc.: 2.0 → 2.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 6.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.56× in 2021

AVS Inc.'s TCR rose 0.4 from 2.0 in 2017 to 2.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2018 at 6.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.56× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333994 · Ayer, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.2 · 126% of ind

  • DART 2.3 DART
  • RANK P43
  • PHOTO INDUSTRIAL HEATER CO…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: INDUSTRIAL HEATER CORP. (0.1 TCR gap)

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AVS Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows AVS Inc. averages 4.2 TCR (126% of the Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

AVS Inc. TCR series: 2017=2 · 2018=6.7 · 2019=5.6 · 2021=2.3 · BLS 3.3

Where AVS Inc. falls in its industry

103 Ceramic kilns and furnaces man establishments

Safer than 43% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
AVS Inc. (53 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 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 0100200300400500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate AVS Inc.
AVS Inc. (53 employees, TCR 4.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 65 employees and a TCR of 3.4

AVS Inc. has fewer employees than the Ceramic kilns and furnaces 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
2021 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2019 5.6 4.2 4 0 0
2018 6.7 3.4 3 1 1
2017 2.0 2.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333994 · MA · Ayer

103 Ceramic kilns and furnaces manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 29 employers in Ayer, 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 INDUSTRIAL HEATER CORP. 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR International Thermal Systems 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kanthal 4.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Precision Thermal Processing 4.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Insa Salem 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northfield Mountain 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Campanelli 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE H.P. Cummings Construction Company 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nashoba Valley Medical Center 523 FTE
CITY-NEAR Catania Spagna Corporation 227 FTE
CITY-NEAR Epic Enterprises, Inc. 178 FTE
CITY-NEAR CPF-NEHF, Inc. 176 FTE
NAT-TCR Drake Specialized Services Inc 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR FMS Construction Company 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Iten Industries Plant 2 4.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hard Chrome 4.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE C048 Portland PC 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Highwoods Preserve Labor, LLC 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Enterprise Rent-A-Car 3614 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Herr Foods Inc. 27 53 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: 2021, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.