Athletic shoes, plastics or plastics soled fabric upper, manufacturing · Massachusetts

Brighton Factory

Brighton, MA · ~79 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Brighton Factory runs at 183% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Athletic shoes, plastics or plastics soled fabric upper, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Brighton Factory: 6.0 TCR = 183% of Athletic shoes, plastics or plastics soled fabric upper, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Brighton Factory safety composite

Brighton Factory scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 51% 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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%).

TCR Δ

−4.3

2016→2017

Brighton Factory injury rate improved

Brighton Factory's TCR fell 4.3 from 8.2 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.2 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.2 · 2017=3.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 316210 · Brighton, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 183% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Weinbrenner Shoe Com…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~79 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Weinbrenner Shoe Company, INC. - Marshfield (0.0 TCR gap)

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Brighton Factory in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Brighton Factory averages 6.0 TCR (183% of the Athletic shoes, plastics or plastics soled fabric upper, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Brighton Factory TCR series: 2016=8.2 · 2017=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Brighton Factory falls in its industry

62 Athletic shoes, plastics or pl establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.8.

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 5 Athletic shoes, plastics or pl employers in Massachusetts.

Brighton Factory (79 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8 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 Brighton Factory
Brighton Factory (79 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 149 employees and a TCR of 4.8

Brighton Factory has fewer employees than the Athletic shoes, plastics or plastics sol median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.8. 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
2017 3.9 2.6 1 2 0
2016 8.2 5.9 4 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

316210 · MA · Brighton

62 Athletic shoes, plastics or plastics soled fabric upper, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 28 employers in Brighton, 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 Weinbrenner Shoe Company, INC. - Marshfield 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR CAPPS SHOE COMPANY 6.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR On Inc 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR McRae Industries Footwear Troy 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Medical Area Total Energy Plant, LLC. 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE NE DISTRIB CENTER (SUTTON)-MA25 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE AMESBURY-MA02 79 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1800 79 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Elizabeth's Medical Center 2,067 FTE
CITY-NEAR WGBH Educational Foundation 998 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brighton HQ 665 FTE
CITY-NEAR Franciscan Childrens 606 FTE
NAT-TCR Plano SNF Operations, LLC D/B/A Accel at Willowbend 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Wood Creek Apartments 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Carolina Container Company Louisville 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Mesa Springs Behavioral Health Hospital 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE ADS Charlotte 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE N and R of Branson LLC 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cascades - IFC Disposables Inc. 79 FTE
NAT-SIZE The John Clarke Retirement Center 79 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: 2017, 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.