Coolers or ice chests, plastics (except foam), manufacturing · Connecticut

Dymotek - Ellington

Ellington, CT · ~62 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Dymotek - Ellington runs at 129% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Coolers or ice chests, plastics (except foam), manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Dymotek - Ellington: 4.3 TCR = 129% of Coolers or ice chests, plastics (except foam), manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Dymotek - Ellington safety composite

Dymotek - Ellington scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

43/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.15 per 100 workers

Safer than 43% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Dymotek - Ellington: 2.3 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 8.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.5× in 2022

Dymotek - Ellington's TCR rose 2.0 from 2.3 in 2016 to 4.3 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 8.4 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Ellington, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 129% of ind

  • DART 2.1 DART
  • RANK #19/33
  • PHOTO KW Container
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 12 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: KW Container (0.0 TCR gap)

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Dymotek - Ellington in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Dymotek - Ellington averages 4.3 TCR (129% of the Coolers or ice chests, plastics (except foam), manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Dymotek - Ellington TCR series: 2016=2.3 · 2017=2.7 · 2018=1.7 · 2019=3.5 · 2020=6.9 · 2021=8.4 · 2022=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Dymotek - Ellington falls in its industry

2,838 Coolers or ice chests, plastic establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 33 Coolers or ice chests, plastic employers in Connecticut.

Dymotek - Ellington (62 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Dymotek - Ellington
Dymotek - Ellington (62 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Dymotek - Ellington has fewer employees than the Coolers or ice chests, plastics (except median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2022 4.3 2.1 0 2 0
2021 8.4 8.4 3 1 0
2020 6.9 6.9 3 0 0
2019 3.5 1.7 1 1 0
2018 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2017 2.7 1.4 2 0 0
2016 2.3 2.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · CT · Ellington

2,838 Coolers or ice chests, plastics (except foam), manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 23 employers in Ellington, 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 KW Container 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Acme Machell, Inc 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Jer-den Plastics 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Inteva Products 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bartlett Brainard Eacott 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE NPL East LLC - Connecticut 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE 16-CT 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Botanical Extract Manufacturer 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Y Foods, Inc. Ellington 145 FTE
CITY-NEAR Town of Ellington 116 FTE
CITY-NEAR Earthlight Main 104 FTE
CITY-NEAR Country Pure Foods - Ellington, Connecticut 101 FTE
NAT-TCR Store 1737 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR RYE-RYMS 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Acme Corrugated Box Co., Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 0347 - Fortune Park in Whse 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Clean Harbors Industrial Services Inc 883S 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Huffcutt 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sulphur District 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE L&K Electric 62 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: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.