Couplings, hose, metal (except fluid power), manufacturing · Maryland

Dixon Specialty Products

Chestertown, MD · ~102 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dixon Specialty Products runs at 65% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Couplings, hose, metal (except fluid power), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Dixon Specialty Products: 2.1 TCR = 65% of Couplings, hose, metal (except fluid power), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dixon Specialty Products safety composite

Dixon Specialty Products scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 63% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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).

C

56/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 63% of industry peers

DART rate
D 0.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 51% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Dixon Specialty Products: 0.0 → 3.0 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.46× in 2024

Dixon Specialty Products's TCR rose 3.0 from 0.0 in 2020 to 3.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.46× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332919 · Chestertown, MD AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade B · TCR 2.1 · 65% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK P63
  • PHOTO Conbraco Industries …
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~102 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Conbraco Industries - Pearl Street (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dixon Specialty Products in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dixon Specialty Products averages 2.1 TCR (65% of the Couplings, hose, metal (except fluid power), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dixon Specialty Products TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=4.7 · 2023=3 · 2024=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Dixon Specialty Products falls in its industry

100 Couplings, hose, metal (except establishments

Safer than 63% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Dixon Specialty Products (102 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Dixon Specialty Products
Dixon Specialty Products (102 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 91 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Dixon Specialty Products has more employees than the Couplings, hose, metal (except fluid pow median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 3.0 1.0 3 0 0
2023 3.0 1.0 3 0 0
2022 4.7 0.9 5 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332919 · MD · Chestertown

100 Couplings, hose, metal (except fluid power), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,213 rated employers in Maryland with headcount on file · 23 employers in Chestertown, MD · 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 Conbraco Industries - Pearl Street 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Elkhart Products Corporation - Fayetteville 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Armstrong Hot Water, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR C. Cowles & Company 2.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE JPG Plumbing & Mechanical 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE D30 Washington DC NI MOD 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Waterloo 102 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fontana Lithograph, Inc. 102 FTE
CITY-NEAR Dixon Valve and Coupling Company 285 FTE
CITY-NEAR ACTS Retirement-Life Communities - Heron Point 177 FTE
CITY-NEAR University of Maryland Shore Medical Center at Chestertown 160 FTE
CITY-NEAR ACTS Retirement-Life Communities-Heron Point 123 FTE
NAT-TCR Altounian Construction, Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 99th Ave 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR StarCorr Sheets, LLC 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Prime Now LLC - UOH5 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE C Harper - Ford 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE GPM Landscape 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hotel Duval Tallahasse 102 FTE
NAT-SIZE Amazon.com Services LLC - HHO2 102 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.

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

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