Name plate blanks, metal, manufacturing · Massachusetts

Eastern Etching & Mfg. Co

Chicopee, MA · ~42 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Eastern Etching & Mfg. Co runs at 479% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Name plate blanks, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Eastern Etching & Mfg. Co: 15.8 TCR = 479% of Name plate blanks, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Eastern Etching & Mfg. Co safety composite

Eastern Etching & Mfg. Co scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.81 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.01 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

−7.1

2016→2019

Eastern Etching & Mfg. Co injury rate improved

Eastern Etching & Mfg. Co's TCR fell 7.1 from 19.6 in 2016 to 12.5 in 2019. Peak filing year was 2017 at 19.9 TCR. In 2019, DART was 0.32× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=19.6 · 2017=19.9 · 2018=11.2 · 2019=12.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332999 · Chicopee, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.8 · 479% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #18/18
  • PHOTO Permaloc Barry Street
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~42 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Permaloc Barry Street (0.0 TCR gap)

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Eastern Etching & Mfg. Co in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Eastern Etching & Mfg. Co averages 15.8 TCR (479% of the Name plate blanks, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Eastern Etching & Mfg. Co TCR series: 2016=19.6 · 2017=19.9 · 2018=11.2 · 2019=12.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Eastern Etching & Mfg. Co falls in its industry

827 Name plate blanks, metal, manu establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #18 safest of 18 Name plate blanks, metal, manu employers in Massachusetts.

Eastern Etching & Mfg. Co (42 employees, TCR 15.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Eastern Etching & Mfg. Co
Eastern Etching & Mfg. Co (42 employees, TCR 15.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 67 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Eastern Etching & Mfg. Co has fewer employees than the Name plate blanks, metal, manufacturing 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
2019 12.5 5.0 4 1 0
2018 11.2 5.6 4 0 0
2017 19.9 11.4 4 3 0
2016 19.6 8.4 3 4 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332999 · MA · Chicopee

827 Name plate blanks, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 104 employers in Chicopee, 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 Permaloc Barry Street 15.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Steel & Aluminum - Liverpool 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BETA Fueling Systems, LLC 15.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR LimPro Inc 15.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kendall 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Liberty Utilities Anawan Street 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lendlease Boston 42 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mass Cabinets Inc. 42 FTE
CITY-NEAR MA-04 4,429 FTE
CITY-NEAR Consumer Product Distributors LLC dba J Polep Distribution Services 774 FTE
CITY-NEAR J Polep Distribution Services 686 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5278 526 FTE
NAT-TCR Colletta 15.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Winchester Care and Rehabilitation 15.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Klausner Lumber Two LLC 15.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 358372-Syr-Teall Sta 15.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Stamford Downtown Courtyard 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Global Packaging Inc. - Hamlet 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Site Development 42 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kaspar Companies Inc 42 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: 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.