Cutters, metal milling, manufacturing · Massachusetts

Benchmark Carbide LLC

Springfield, MA · ~46 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Benchmark Carbide LLC runs at 75% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Cutters, metal milling, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Benchmark Carbide LLC: 2.5 TCR = 75% of Cutters, metal milling, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Benchmark Carbide LLC safety composite

Benchmark Carbide LLC scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 7%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 2.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 49% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.37 per 100 workers

Safer than 7% 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

Benchmark Carbide LLC: 2.1 → 5.4 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.16× in 2023

Benchmark Carbide LLC's TCR rose 3.3 from 2.1 in 2019 to 5.4 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 2.16× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333515 · Springfield, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.5 · 75% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #5/7
  • PHOTO GWS Tool LLC - WI
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~46 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GWS Tool LLC - WI (0.0 TCR gap)

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Benchmark Carbide LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Benchmark Carbide LLC averages 2.5 TCR (75% of the Cutters, metal milling, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Benchmark Carbide LLC TCR series: 2019=2.1 · 2022=0 · 2023=5.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Benchmark Carbide LLC falls in its industry

221 Cutters, metal milling, manufa establishments

Safer than 49% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

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 Cutters, metal milling, manufa employers in Massachusetts.

Benchmark Carbide LLC (46 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Benchmark Carbide LLC
Benchmark Carbide LLC (46 employees, TCR 2.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Benchmark Carbide LLC has fewer employees than the Cutters, metal milling, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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
2023 5.4 5.4 2 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 2.1 0.0 0 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333515 · MA · Springfield

221 Cutters, metal milling, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 215 employers in Springfield, 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 GWS Tool LLC - WI 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Peterson Tool Company, Inc. 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR PMC, Snow Dragon, & Pines Engineering 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Voisard Tool 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Verano MA CPG 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Piledriving Job Site - 001 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE B.W. Kennedy & Company, LLC 46 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fuse HQ 46 FTE
CITY-NEAR BMC - Baystate Medical Center 8,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR BMP - Baystate Medical Practices 1,977 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Tarp Redevelopment, LLC d/b/a MGM Springfield 1,867 FTE
CITY-NEAR BMF - Baystate Medical Practices 1,746 FTE
NAT-TCR Unit #2467 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #2738 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Unit #2930 2.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Reyes Group Ltd 2.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE 101MTP 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chicago 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE Arntzen Corporation Woodstock 46 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6340-VIKING-001020_US_S0129 46 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: 2023, 2022, 2019. 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.