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Christmas Tree Shops Waterford

Waterford, CT · ~51 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.0
Avg TCR
3.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Christmas Tree Shops Waterford runs at 207% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical retailing gifts novelty merchandise souvenirs greeting cards workplace, earning a grade F.

Christmas Tree Shops Waterford: 7.0 TCR = 207% of retailing gifts novelty merchandise souvenirs greeting cards BLS 3.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Christmas Tree Shops Waterford safety composite

Christmas Tree Shops Waterford scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 15%), 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).

F

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.35 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Christmas Tree Shops Waterford: 3.8 → 10.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 10.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.47× in 2020

Christmas Tree Shops Waterford's TCR rose 6.6 from 3.8 in 2019 to 10.3 in 2020. In 2020, DART was 1.47× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 453220 · Waterford, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.0 · 207% of ind

  • DART 10.3 DART
  • RANK P21
  • PHOTO Christmas Tree Shops…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~51 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Christmas Tree Shops Middletown (0.2 TCR gap)

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Christmas Tree Shops Waterford in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Christmas Tree Shops Waterford averages 7.0 TCR (207% of the retailing gifts novelty merchandise souvenirs greeting cards BLS benchmark).

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

Christmas Tree Shops Waterford TCR series: 2019=3.8 · 2020=10.3 · BLS 3.4

Where Christmas Tree Shops Waterford falls in its industry

70 retailing gifts novelty merch establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Christmas Tree Shops Waterford (51 employees, TCR 7.0) among 8 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 4.4 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 9 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 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Spencer Gifts LLCTropical Shell & GiftCASTLE MEGASTORE GROUP INCBronner's Christmas WonderlandHershey Chocolate WorldBerlin Village Gift BarnDave's Fresh Marketplace Baskets IncEGM-McCarranChristmas Tree Shops Waterford
Christmas Tree Shops Waterford (51 employees, TCR 7.0) among 8 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 123 employees and a TCR of 4.4

Christmas Tree Shops Waterford has fewer employees than the retailing gifts novelty merchandise so median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.4. 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
2020 10.3 10.3 2 0 0
2019 3.8 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

453220 · CT · Waterford

70 retailing gifts novelty merchandise souvenirs greeting cards employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 81 employers in Waterford, CT · 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 Christmas Tree Shops Middletown 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Christmas Tree Shops Florence DC 7.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Christmas Tree Shops Syracuse 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Christmas Tree Shops Utica 6.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Desco Professional Builders, INC 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE McCarthy Concrete, Inc. 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE Delmar Electrical Contractors, LLC 51 FTE
STATE-SIZE 84- Middletown 51 FTE
CITY-NEAR MILLSTONE NUC 958 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2331 362 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2331 323 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bayview Health Care 229 FTE
NAT-TCR 968 Latham, Ny 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ashley Furniture Homestore- Southaven 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR WWL Vehicle Services Americas, Inc. (BMW) 7.0 TCR
NAT-TCR E-Commerce 7.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Marjac Ventures Shawnee, LLC 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE 4769-631-Williams Sonoma 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE Environmental Wood Solutions II, LLC 51 FTE
NAT-SIZE PBI - Ground Ops 51 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: 2020, 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.