Tools, hand, metal blade (e.g., putty knives, scrapers, screwdrivers) · Massachusetts

Deerfield Packaging Services

Turners Falls, MA · ~88 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Deerfield Packaging Services runs at 313% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tools, hand, metal blade (e.g., putty knives, scrapers, screwdrivers) workplace, earning a grade F.

Deerfield Packaging Services: 10.3 TCR = 313% of Tools, hand, metal blade (e.g., putty knives, scrapers, screwdrivers) BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Deerfield Packaging Services safety composite

Deerfield Packaging Services scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% 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

−5.1

2020→2024

Deerfield Packaging Services injury rate improved

Deerfield Packaging Services's TCR fell 5.1 from 11.2 in 2020 to 6.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 15.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=11.2 · 2021=7.5 · 2022=15.5 · 2023=11.3 · 2024=6.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332216 · Turners Falls, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.3 · 313% of ind

  • DART 2.0 DART
  • RANK #8/9
  • PHOTO Rotary / Duramatic
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~88 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Rotary / Duramatic (0.0 TCR gap)

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Deerfield Packaging Services in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Deerfield Packaging Services averages 10.3 TCR (313% of the Tools, hand, metal blade (e.g., putty knives, scrapers, screwdrivers) BLS benchmark).

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

Deerfield Packaging Services TCR series: 2020=11.2 · 2021=7.5 · 2022=15.5 · 2023=11.3 · 2024=6.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Deerfield Packaging Services falls in its industry

174 Tools, hand, metal blade (e.g. establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 9 Tools, hand, metal blade (e.g. employers in Massachusetts.

Deerfield Packaging Services (88 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Deerfield Packaging Services
Deerfield Packaging Services (88 employees, TCR 10.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Deerfield Packaging Services has more employees than the Tools, hand, metal blade (e.g., putty kn median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 6.1 2.0 4 2 0
2023 11.3 2.3 9 1 0
2022 15.5 3.3 11 3 0
2021 7.5 2.5 2 4 0
2020 11.2 5.1 4 7 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332216 · MA · Turners Falls

174 Tools, hand, metal blade (e.g., putty knives, scrapers, screwdrivers) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 11 employers in Turners Falls, MA · 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 Rotary / Duramatic 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwest Tool and Cutlery Company 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Estwing Manufacturing Company 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR IDL Techniedge 9.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE The Heirloom Collective, Inc. Hadley 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Heirloom Collective, Inc. Bernardston 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE D'Allessandro Corp 88 FTE
STATE-SIZE C.A. Senecal Electrical Services, Inc. 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Turners Falls 272 FTE
CITY-NEAR Judd Wire 257 FTE
CITY-NEAR Farren Care Center 164 FTE
CITY-NEAR Altium Packaging - Turners Falls Plant 118 FTE
NAT-TCR Willow Fork Pallet 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Brandon Court Nursing Home DBA Rankin Community Care Center 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunnyview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center 10.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Kingsbrook Lifecare Center 10.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trader Joe's 0562 Bedford 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Patterson GA Locomotive 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE Burns and Scalo Roofing Company 88 FTE
NAT-SIZE White House Utility District of Robertson and Sumner Counties 88 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, 2022, 2021, 2020. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.