Laboratory testing (except medical, veterinary) services · Rhode Island

Ess - Bal

Cranston, RI · ~68 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
1.1
Avg TCR
0.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ess - Bal runs at 214% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Laboratory testing (except medical, veterinary) services workplace, earning a grade F.

Ess - Bal: 1.1 TCR = 214% of Laboratory testing (except medical, veterinary) services BLS 0.5 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ess - Bal safety composite

Ess - Bal scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 22%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 1.07 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% 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

−0.4

2017→2020

Ess - Bal injury rate improved

Ess - Bal's TCR fell 0.4 from 1.8 in 2017 to 1.4 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2017 at 1.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 1.33× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=1.8 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 541380 · Cranston, RI ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 1.1 · 214% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK P47
  • PHOTO Phenova
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~68 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Phenova (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ess - Bal in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Ess - Bal averages 1.1 TCR (214% of the Laboratory testing (except medical, veterinary) services BLS benchmark).

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

Ess - Bal TCR series: 2017=1.8 · 2019=0 · 2020=1.4 · BLS 0.5

Where Ess - Bal falls in its industry

232 Laboratory testing (except med establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Ess - Bal (68 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 1.0 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 01,0002,0003,0004,0005,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Ess - Bal
Ess - Bal (68 employees, TCR 1.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 1.0

Ess - Bal has fewer employees than the Laboratory testing (except medical, vete median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.0. 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
2020 1.4 1.4 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.8 1.8 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

541380 · RI · Cranston

232 Laboratory testing (except medical, veterinary) services employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,610 rated employers in Rhode Island with headcount on file · 151 employers in Cranston, RI · 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 Phenova 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Balazs Dallas 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Linde - Special Projects (Murray Hill) 1.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR CTS Dallas 1.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE All Projects 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Blount Fine Foods-Warren 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Guill Tool & Engineering Co., Inc. 68 FTE
STATE-SIZE Teknicote 68 FTE
CITY-NEAR Taco Cranston 393 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tasca Lincoln Mercury Inc 391 FTE
CITY-NEAR Thielsch Engineering HQ 377 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heritage Healthcare Services Inc. 347 FTE
NAT-TCR Ironworks Hotel Indianapolis LLC 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Allen Office 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Y-W Electric Association, Inc. Akron 1.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Mahoney Environmental Joliet 1.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE T197 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Encore Precast, LLC 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ergon Marine & Industrial Supply-Vicksburg 68 FTE
NAT-SIZE Location 53011 68 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: 2020, 2019, 2017. 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.