Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing · Massachusetts

Bemis Associates, Inc.

Shirley, MA · ~166 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Bemis Associates, Inc. runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Bemis Associates, Inc.: 3.8 TCR = 114% of Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bemis Associates, Inc. safety composite

Bemis Associates, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 32%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

Bemis Associates, Inc.: 0.7 → 1.9 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 9.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2024

Bemis Associates, Inc.'s TCR rose 1.1 from 0.7 in 2021 to 1.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 9.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325520 · Shirley, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 114% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #10/13
  • PHOTO Huntsman Advanced Ma…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 27 inj
  • SIZE ~166 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Huntsman Advanced Materials (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bemis Associates, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bemis Associates, Inc. averages 3.8 TCR (114% of the Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Bemis Associates, Inc. TCR series: 2021=0.7 · 2022=9.2 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=1.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Bemis Associates, Inc. falls in its industry

287 Adhesives (except asphalt, den establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #10 safest of 13 Adhesives (except asphalt, den employers in Massachusetts.

Bemis Associates, Inc. (166 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bemis Associates, Inc.
Bemis Associates, Inc. (166 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Bemis Associates, Inc. has more employees than the Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsu median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 1.9 1.9 4 0 0
2023 3.2 1.3 5 0 0
2022 9.2 8.1 10 7 0
2021 0.7 0.7 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325520 · MA · Shirley

287 Adhesives (except asphalt, dental, gypsum base) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 12 employers in Shirley, 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 Huntsman Advanced Materials 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beardow Adams 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jowat Corporation 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Eclectic Pineville 3.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Shawnlee Construction 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lowell, MA (Boston Office) 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bay State Milling - Quincy/Corporate/Remote 166 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fantini Bakery 166 FTE
CITY-NEAR BemisUS Shirley 234 FTE
CITY-NEAR Little Leaf Farms 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR Closets by Design Boston 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stryker- Mobius 87 FTE
NAT-TCR Pinnacle Plant /Allen Harim LLC 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 1772 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Imageworks Manufacturing, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hendrickson Transportation, LLC 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Siena Lakes 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pittmans Tree and Landscaping 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE CTIW 166 FTE
NAT-SIZE Severino Trucking Co., Inc. 166 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, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.