Athletic socks, knitting or knitting and finishing · Vermont

DarnTough VT

Waterbury, VT · ~92 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DarnTough VT runs at 52% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Athletic socks, knitting or knitting and finishing workplace, earning a grade B.

DarnTough VT: 1.7 TCR = 52% of Athletic socks, knitting or knitting and finishing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DarnTough VT safety composite

DarnTough VT scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 50%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.7 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.83 per 100 workers

Safer than 50% 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

−1.0

2020→2022

DarnTough VT injury rate improved

DarnTough VT's TCR fell 1.0 from 1.9 in 2020 to 0.8 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 2.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=1.9 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=0.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 315110 · Waterbury, VT AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.7 · 52% of ind

  • DART 0.8 DART
  • RANK #1/4
  • PHOTO For Bare Feet, LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~92 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: For Bare Feet, LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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DarnTough VT in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DarnTough VT averages 1.7 TCR (52% 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

DarnTough VT TCR series: 2020=1.9 · 2021=2.4 · 2022=0.8 · BLS 3.3

Where DarnTough VT falls in its industry

25 Athletic socks, knitting or kn establishments

Safer than 68% 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 #1 safest of 4 Athletic socks, knitting or kn employers in Vermont.

DarnTough VT (92 employees, TCR 1.7) 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 DarnTough VT
DarnTough VT (92 employees, TCR 1.7) among 19 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 2.5

DarnTough VT has more employees than the Athletic socks, knitting or knitting and median and a lower 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 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2021 2.4 2.4 2 0 0
2020 1.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

315110 · VT · Waterbury

25 Athletic socks, knitting or knitting and finishing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 14 employers in Waterbury, 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 For Bare Feet, LLC 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sigvaris, Inc. 1.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Front Street 1.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Renfro - Cleveland Plant 1.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE NAI-0033-0033-00610 FAC-00610-DERBY-VT 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE FedEx 921 MARSHALL AVE 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE 661 OKEMO MTN - JACKSON GORE 92 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waitsfield Administrative Office 93 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waterbury VT 477 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dartmouth Journal Services 119 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waterbury 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAI-0033-0033-00649 FAC-00649-WATERBURY-VT 102 FTE
NAT-TCR Woodmore Dialysis Center 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR IMA Automation USA, Inc 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Liebovich Steel And Aluminum 1.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Flint Builders, Inc. 1.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE TSI Commercial Floor Covering 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tops 42 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ozark Empire Fair 92 FTE
NAT-SIZE HHC KY Plant 92 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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