Athletic socks, knitting or knitting and finishing · Vermont

Darn Tough VT

Northfield, VT · ~155 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darn Tough VT runs at 195% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Athletic socks, knitting or knitting and finishing workplace, earning a grade D.

Darn Tough VT: 6.4 TCR = 195% of Athletic socks, knitting or knitting and finishing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darn Tough VT safety composite

Darn Tough VT scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

27/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

−7.5

2020→2022

Darn Tough VT injury rate improved

Darn Tough VT's TCR fell 7.5 from 11.4 in 2020 to 4.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2020 at 11.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=11.4 · 2021=3.9 · 2022=4.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 315110 · Northfield, VT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 195% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #2/4
  • PHOTO Catawba Sox
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 25 inj
  • SIZE ~155 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Catawba Sox (0.2 TCR gap)

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Darn Tough VT in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darn Tough VT averages 6.4 TCR (195% of the Athletic socks, knitting or knitting and finishing BLS benchmark).

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

Darn Tough VT TCR series: 2020=11.4 · 2021=3.9 · 2022=4 · BLS 3.3

Where Darn Tough VT falls in its industry

25 Athletic socks, knitting or kn establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Vermont alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 4 Athletic socks, knitting or kn employers in Vermont.

Darn Tough VT (155 employees, TCR 6.4) among 19 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.5 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 20 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 Darn Tough VT
Darn Tough VT (155 employees, TCR 6.4) among 19 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Darn Tough VT has more employees than the Athletic socks, knitting or knitting and 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
2022 4.0 3.3 6 0 0
2021 3.9 2.6 6 0 0
2020 11.4 7.9 13 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

315110 · VT · Northfield

25 Athletic socks, knitting or knitting and finishing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 6 employers in Northfield, VT · 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 Catawba Sox 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Renfro - Ft. Payne Plant 5.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cabot Hosiery Mills INc 7.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Albahealth 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE VT - Williston - 687 Marshall Ave - Keurig Green Mountain Inc 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Lane Press 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8161 154 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mountain Top Inn 156 FTE
CITY-NEAR SODEXO AT NORWICH UNIVERSITY 151 FTE
CITY-NEAR Darntough 135 FTE
CITY-NEAR NORTHFIELD 26 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tops #741 24 FTE
NAT-TCR HHC KY Plant 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 9215-BHM 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Daimler Trucks North America Cleveland 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR SouthernCarlson - Tracy 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE RAM Enterprise Inc. 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE GreenStar West End 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Food City Store #670 155 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lunds & Byerlys, Chanhassen 155 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: 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.