Barge sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing · Massachusetts

Barker Steel - South Deerfield, MA

Name: Barker Steel - South Deerfield, MA Workplace Safety Data
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South Deerfield, MA · ~24 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

C
Average Safety Record: 3.2
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Barker Steel - South Deerfield, MA runs at 98% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Barge sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Barker Steel - South Deerfield, MA: 3.2 TCR = 98% of Barge sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Barker Steel - South Deerfield, MA safety composite

Barker Steel - South Deerfield, MA scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 64% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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).

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 3.24 per 100 workers

Safer than 64% of industry peers
DART rate: F 4.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% of industry peers
Fatalities: D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Barker Steel - South Deerfield, MA: 4.9 → 8.1 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.25× in 2021

Barker Steel - South Deerfield, MA's TCR rose 3.2 from 4.9 in 2018 to 8.1 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 1.25× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · South Deerfield, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.2 · 98% of ind

DART 4.0 DART
RANK #5/12
PHOTO W&W|AFCO Steel Nash
BOOK 4y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: W&W|AFCO Steel Nash (0.0 TCR gap)

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Steele Solutio

3.3
Central Texas

3.3
This site

3.2
W&W|AFCO Steel

3.2
Wildeck

3.2

What this shows Barker Steel - South Deerfield, MA averages 3.2 TCR (98% of the Barge sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Barker Steel - South Deerfield, MA TCR series: 2018=4.9 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=8.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Barker Steel - South Deerfield, MA falls in its industry

1,491 Barge sections, prefabricated establishments

Safer than 64% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

Grade C

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 12 Barge sections, prefabricated employers in Massachusetts.

Barker Steel - South Deerfield, MA (24 employees, TCR 3.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Barker Steel - South Deerfield, MA has fewer employees than the Barge sections, prefabricated metal, man median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2021	8.1	4.0	2	0
2020	0.0	0.0	0	0
2019	0.0	0.0	0	0
2018	4.9	0.0	0	1

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · MA · South Deerfield

1,491 Barge sections, prefabricated metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 14 employers in South Deerfield, MA · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	W&W\|AFCO Steel Nash	NASHVILLE, NC	3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Steele Solutions Inc.	FRANKLIN, WI	3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Central Texas Iron Works, Inc.	WACO, TX	3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Wildeck	WAUKESHA, WI	3.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Savage Farms Inc.	DEERFIELD	24 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Salem Harbor Station	SALEM	24 FTE
STATE-SIZE	West Springfield Station	WEST SPRINGFIELD	24 FTE
STATE-SIZE	ATTLEBORO-MA04	ATTLEBORO	24 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Yankee Candle Retail	South Deerfield	2,766 FTE
CITY-NEAR	South Deerfield Facility	South Deerfield	401 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Yankee Candle Operations	South Deerfield	329 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Yankee Candle Distribution	South Deerfield	313 FTE
NAT-TCR	Washington	Richland, WA	3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Gibraltar Construction Co., Inc.	Annapolis, MD	3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Meijer Inc	Cedar Springs, MI	3.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Belleair Health Care Center	Clearwater, FL	3.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	King City Senior Village	Portland, OR	24 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Viking Fabrication - Irving (DFW)	Irving, TX	24 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Markman Peat IN	Laporte, IN	24 FTE
NAT-SIZE	JR Industrial, Inc.	Tarrant, AL	24 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. 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.