Machine shops · Massachusetts

Essex Bay Engineering

Ipswich, MA · ~50 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Essex Bay Engineering runs at 102% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade C.

Essex Bay Engineering: 3.4 TCR = 102% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Essex Bay Engineering safety composite

Essex Bay Engineering scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 52% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

Essex Bay Engineering: 2.7 → 3.9 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2022

Essex Bay Engineering's TCR rose 1.2 from 2.7 in 2016 to 3.9 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2017 at 4.5 TCR. In 2022, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Ipswich, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 102% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #33/54
  • PHOTO Machinetek Corp
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~50 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Machinetek Corp (0.0 TCR gap)

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Essex Bay Engineering in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Essex Bay Engineering averages 3.4 TCR (102% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Essex Bay Engineering TCR series: 2016=2.7 · 2017=4.5 · 2018=4 · 2019=2.4 · 2020=4.1 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=3.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Essex Bay Engineering falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 52% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #33 safest of 54 Machine shops employers in Massachusetts.

Essex Bay Engineering (50 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Essex Bay Engineering
Essex Bay Engineering (50 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Essex Bay Engineering has more employees than the Machine shops median and a lower 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 3.9 0.0 2 0 0
2021 1.9 0.0 1 0 0
2020 4.1 0.0 2 0 0
2019 2.4 0.0 1 0 0
2018 4.0 2.0 2 0 0
2017 4.5 2.3 2 0 0
2016 2.7 2.7 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · MA · Ipswich

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 22 employers in Ipswich, 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 Machinetek Corp 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR FELTON MACHINE CO. INC. 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Van-Am Tool & Engineering - Main Location 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Benchmark Electronics 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bountiful Farms Cultivation 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE C3 Industries, Inc - Franklin 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allegrone Construction Co., Inc. 50 FTE
STATE-SIZE Acella 50 FTE
CITY-NEAR EBSCO Information Services 1,388 FTE
CITY-NEAR New England BioLabs, Inc. (Ipswich Headquarters) 437 FTE
CITY-NEAR Trillium Valves USA 114 FTE
CITY-NEAR Little Enterprises LLC 100 FTE
NAT-TCR Masonville Place 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 489200-Uvalde Po 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 196919-Ottawa Po 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 361392-Charlotte Po 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE HG782 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE 6299-MN008 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Phoenix - BMD 50 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jaguar Land Rover Seattle 50 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.

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

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