Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing · New York

Dawson Metal Co Inc

Jamestown, NY · ~75 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dawson Metal Co Inc runs at 215% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Dawson Metal Co Inc: 7.1 TCR = 215% of Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dawson Metal Co Inc safety composite

Dawson Metal Co Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

36/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.4

2023→2024

Dawson Metal Co Inc injury rate improved

Dawson Metal Co Inc's TCR fell 2.4 from 8.3 in 2023 to 5.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 8.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.41× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=8.3 · 2024=5.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332322 · Jamestown, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.1 · 215% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #45/58
  • PHOTO Robinson, Inc.-MTC
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~75 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Robinson, Inc.-MTC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dawson Metal Co Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dawson Metal Co Inc averages 7.1 TCR (215% of the Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dawson Metal Co Inc TCR series: 2023=8.3 · 2024=5.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Dawson Metal Co Inc falls in its industry

1,158 Air cowls, sheet metal (except establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #45 safest of 58 Air cowls, sheet metal (except employers in New York.

Dawson Metal Co Inc (75 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dawson Metal Co Inc
Dawson Metal Co Inc (75 employees, TCR 7.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Dawson Metal Co Inc has more employees than the Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2024 5.9 2.9 4 0 0
2023 8.3 2.8 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332322 · NY · Jamestown

1,158 Air cowls, sheet metal (except stampings), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 104 employers in Jamestown, NY · 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 Robinson, Inc.-MTC 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sheet Metal Connectors Inc 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Precision Engineering, Inc. 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Blickman Industries 7.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE O&R Blue Hill 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE Venia Conctracting LLC 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE 102843 - Rondout West Branch Bypass Water Tunnel 75 FTE
STATE-SIZE McLaughlin Construction Corp. DBA Edbauer Construction 75 FTE
CITY-NEAR UPMC Chautauqua at WCA 988 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bush Industries 378 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Resource Center - Dunham 352 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wegmans Jamestown 088 310 FTE
NAT-TCR Giant Food Stores 6313 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR DePuy Synthes Sales Organization 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 6978 Brookwood 7.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Power Vac, Inc. 7.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Ludlow Manufacturing Inc. 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Neotiss, Inc. 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Downes Construction Company 75 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lancaster Electric Inc 75 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: 2024, 2023. 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.