Contractors, cut and sew apparel · Connecticut

Darter Specialties

Cheshire, CT · ~29 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
0.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Darter Specialties runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Contractors, cut and sew apparel workplace, earning a grade C.

Darter Specialties: 0.0 TCR = 0% of Contractors, cut and sew apparel BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Darter Specialties safety composite

Darter Specialties scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 100% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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).

B

81/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 100% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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%).

Darter Specialties held a steady TCR band

Darter Specialties's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2022 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2022 at 0.0 TCR.

2022=0.0 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 315210 · Cheshire, CT AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 0.0 · 0% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P100
  • PHOTO Lions Services, Inc
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 0 inj
  • SIZE ~29 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lions Services, Inc (0.2 TCR gap)

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Darter Specialties in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Darter Specialties averages 0.0 TCR (0% of the Contractors, cut and sew apparel BLS benchmark).

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

Darter Specialties TCR series: 2022=0 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Darter Specialties falls in its industry

72 Contractors, cut and sew appar establishments

Safer than 100% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Darter Specialties (29 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Darter Specialties
Darter Specialties (29 employees, TCR 0.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 62 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Darter Specialties has fewer employees than the Contractors, cut and sew apparel median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

315210 · CT · Cheshire

72 Contractors, cut and sew apparel employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 68 employers in Cheshire, 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 Lions Services, Inc 0.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morning Pride Manufacturing, LLC dba Honeywell First Responder Products 0.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jostens - Laurens, SC Plant 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Avalon Apparel LLC 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE First Taxing District Water Department Treatment Plant 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Jacobs - Norwalk - OMI 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cocchiola Paving, Inc. 29 FTE
STATE-SIZE Public Works - Streets amd Roads 29 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bozzuto's Inc. 1,617 FTE
CITY-NEAR 88500 1,049 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cheshire Corectional Institution 440 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cheshire 385 FTE
NAT-TCR California Department of Transportation Facility 128 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Integration Appliance Inc. 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Raleigh Managed Services 0.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Airborn Inc. Addison 0.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Doc Dancer Inc. 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE BRV Construction Services, Inc. 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pine Bluff - Tubes & Cores - C321 29 FTE
NAT-SIZE HVR Poway, LP 29 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: 2023, 2022. 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.