Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing · Massachusetts

B & D Pallet Company

Westfield, MA · ~20 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

B & D Pallet Company runs at 481% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

B & D Pallet Company: 15.9 TCR = 481% of Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

B & D Pallet Company safety composite

B & D Pallet Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
F 9.16 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

B & D Pallet Company: 17.6 → 18.3 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 18.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.58× in 2018

B & D Pallet Company's TCR rose 0.7 from 17.6 in 2016 to 18.3 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 0.58× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Westfield, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.9 · 481% of ind

  • DART 9.2 DART
  • RANK #17/20
  • PHOTO Propak - Kansas City…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Propak - Kansas City RLC, KS (0.0 TCR gap)

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B & D Pallet Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows B & D Pallet Company averages 15.9 TCR (481% of the Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

B & D Pallet Company TCR series: 2016=17.6 · 2017=11.7 · 2018=18.3 · BLS 3.3

Where B & D Pallet Company falls in its industry

952 Pallets, wood or wood and meta establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 20 Pallets, wood or wood and meta employers in Massachusetts.

B & D Pallet Company (20 employees, TCR 15.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate B & D Pallet Company
B & D Pallet Company (20 employees, TCR 15.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

B & D Pallet Company has fewer employees than the Pallets, wood or wood and metal combinat median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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
2018 18.3 9.2 2 2 0
2017 11.7 0.0 0 3 0
2016 17.6 8.8 2 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · MA · Westfield

952 Pallets, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 84 employers in Westfield, 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 Propak - Kansas City RLC, KS 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Girard Wood Products Lacey 15.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Specialty Manufacturing of Menomonie 16.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pro Pallet LLC 16.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Millennium Power 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE ANP Blackstone Energy Company LLC 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE ATHOL-MA03 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE QUINCY-MA41 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR BNH - Baystate Noble Hospital 541 FTE
CITY-NEAR CS Wholesale Grocers : Westfield, MA (FDC) 499 FTE
CITY-NEAR Savage Arms, Inc. 405 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2174 401 FTE
NAT-TCR MBK - Hillcrest 15.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Brookwood Skilled Nursing and Therapy 15.9 TCR
NAT-TCR ERC-Loveland 15.9 TCR
NAT-TCR 051740-Compton Po 15.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE InfuScience, Inc. - Charleston, SC - 2415 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Infusion Partners - 1036 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kitchen & Company- Store 7 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Senior Care of Corpus Christi ALF 20 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: 2018, 2017, 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.