Employer · Massachusetts

Ball Plant III

New Bedford, MA · ~477 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ball Plant III runs at 72% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical industry workplace, earning a grade B.

Ball Plant III: 2.4 TCR = 72% of industry BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ball Plant III safety composite

Ball Plant III scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% 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).

C

59/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
C 1.19 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% 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%).

Ball Plant III held a steady TCR band

Ball Plant III's TCR held near 0.2 from 2.4 in 2016 to 2.2 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.6 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=2.4 · 2018=1.2 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=2.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339920 · New Bedford, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.4 · 72% of ind

  • DART 1.2 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO COLUMBUS FOAM PRODUCTS
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 41 inj
  • SIZE ~477 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: COLUMBUS FOAM PRODUCTS (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ball Plant III in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ball Plant III averages 2.4 TCR (72% of the industry BLS benchmark).

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

Ball Plant III TCR series: 2016=2.4 · 2018=1.2 · 2019=2.5 · 2020=3.6 · 2021=2.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Ball Plant III falls in its industry

197 industry establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 7 industry employers in Massachusetts.

Ball Plant III (477 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 3.3 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ball Plant III
Ball Plant III (477 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 84 employees and a TCR of 3.3

Ball Plant III has more employees than the industry median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.3. 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
2021 2.2 1.2 8 3 0
2020 3.6 3.3 11 1 0
2019 2.5 2.3 10 1 0
2018 1.2 0.7 4 1 0
2016 2.4 1.9 8 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339920 · MA · New Bedford

197 industry 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 COLUMBUS FOAM PRODUCTS 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kollege Town Sports 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR BSN Sports 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hoyt Archery 2.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Crystal Springs Inc. 476 FTE
STATE-SIZE SIGNATURE MEDICAL GROUP 478 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sheraton Boston Hotel 478 FTE
STATE-SIZE Saint Gobain Abrasives 479 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 Division 70 University of Rochester 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR On Site Repair Services, Inc 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hilite International Orion 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Peoria S & S Pioneer 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE DuPont Circleville 477 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kelly General Construction of Decatur, Inc. 477 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paso Robles CA 477 FTE
NAT-SIZE Swire Coca-Cola of Denver 477 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, 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.