Printing and binding books without publishing · Massachusetts

Bradford & Bigelow, Inc.

Newburyport, MA · ~177 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Bradford & Bigelow, Inc. runs at 99% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Printing and binding books without publishing workplace, earning a grade C.

Bradford & Bigelow, Inc.: 3.3 TCR = 99% of Printing and binding books without publishing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Bradford & Bigelow, Inc. safety composite

Bradford & Bigelow, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.21 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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%).

Bradford & Bigelow, Inc. held a steady TCR band

Bradford & Bigelow, Inc.'s TCR held near 0.3 from 3.0 in 2022 to 3.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.68× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2022=3.0 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=3.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323117 · Newburyport, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 99% of ind

  • DART 2.2 DART
  • RANK #4/6
  • PHOTO LSC Communications M…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 18 inj
  • SIZE ~177 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: LSC Communications Menasha Print (0.0 TCR gap)

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Bradford & Bigelow, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Bradford & Bigelow, Inc. averages 3.3 TCR (99% of the Printing and binding books without publishing BLS benchmark).

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

Bradford & Bigelow, Inc. TCR series: 2022=3 · 2023=3.5 · 2024=3.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Bradford & Bigelow, Inc. falls in its industry

116 Printing and binding books wit establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 6 Printing and binding books wit employers in Massachusetts.

Bradford & Bigelow, Inc. (177 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 168 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 05001,0001,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Bradford & Bigelow, Inc.
Bradford & Bigelow, Inc. (177 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 168 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Bradford & Bigelow, Inc. has more employees than the Printing and binding books without publi median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 3.3 2.2 6 0 0
2023 3.5 1.0 7 0 0
2022 3.0 3.0 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323117 · MA · Newburyport

116 Printing and binding books without publishing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 59 employers in Newburyport, 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 LSC Communications Menasha Print 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Worzalla, Inc. 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sentinel Printing 3.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR PGSTL 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE HVV Massachusetts, Inc. - Gloucester 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Somerville Electric 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Cheviot Corp. 177 FTE
STATE-SIZE USA MA Canton 177 FTE
CITY-NEAR Anna Jaques Hospital 946 FTE
CITY-NEAR BETH ISREAL DEACONESS HOSPITAL ANNA JAQUES 491 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rochester Electronics LLC 470 FTE
CITY-NEAR Turning Point, Inc. 334 FTE
NAT-TCR Designer's Press LLC. dba Sandy Alexander 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR B.L. Brown Construction & Excavation, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR ELPRO Services, Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR LNH- Indianapolis 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Grand Island Express Inc. 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hagerman Construction 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Grove Park Healthcare and Rehabilitation 177 FTE
NAT-SIZE Whitmore Manufacturing, LLC 177 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.