Guitars and parts, electric and nonelectric, manufacturing · New Jersey

DR Handmade Strings Inc

Westwood, NJ · ~40 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

DR Handmade Strings Inc runs at 61% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Guitars and parts, electric and nonelectric, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

DR Handmade Strings Inc: 2.0 TCR = 61% of Guitars and parts, electric and nonelectric, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

DR Handmade Strings Inc safety composite

DR Handmade Strings Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 88% 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

76/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 2.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 88% 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

DR Handmade Strings Inc: 0.0 → 7.2 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 7.2 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

DR Handmade Strings Inc's TCR rose 7.2 from 0.0 in 2020 to 7.2 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339992 · Westwood, NJ AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 61% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P80
  • PHOTO Conn-Selmer South Fa…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Conn-Selmer South Facility (0.1 TCR gap)

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DR Handmade Strings Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows DR Handmade Strings Inc averages 2.0 TCR (61% of the Guitars and parts, electric and nonelectric, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

DR Handmade Strings Inc TCR series: 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=0 · 2024=7.2 · BLS 3.3

Where DR Handmade Strings Inc falls in its industry

41 Guitars and parts, electric an establishments

Safer than 80% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
DR Handmade Strings Inc (40 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 110 employees and a TCR of 3.8 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 0200400600800 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate DR Handmade Strings Inc
DR Handmade Strings Inc (40 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 110 employees and a TCR of 3.8

DR Handmade Strings Inc has fewer employees than the Guitars and parts, electric and nonelect median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.8. 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 7.2 0.0 2 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 2.9 0.0 1 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

339992 · NJ · Westwood

41 Guitars and parts, electric and nonelectric, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 18 employers in Westwood, NJ · 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 Conn-Selmer South Facility 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR FMIC (Corona) 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR E. & O. MARI, INC. 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Ludwig Drum Company 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE MATHIS 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Carneys Point Generating Plant 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE ACE- West Creek Operations 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE NJC 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR HackensackUMC at Pascack Valley 630 FTE
CITY-NEAR MPV NJMD Services 405 FTE
CITY-NEAR CAREONE AT VALLEY 174 FTE
CITY-NEAR Rockland Coaches, Inc. 141 FTE
NAT-TCR Excal-Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Dudley Lumber Company 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Industrial Performance Group 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Pepperl + Fuchs Katy 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Forest Park 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE PMC Industries, Inc. 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3LS Inc 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ian Marie Inc. dba The Journeyman Press 40 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.