Commercial printing (except screen, books) · Massachusetts

First Mate Printing & Converting

Gardner, MA · ~64 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Mate Printing & Converting runs at 58% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Commercial printing (except screen, books) workplace, earning a grade B.

First Mate Printing & Converting: 1.9 TCR = 58% of Commercial printing (except screen, books) BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Mate Printing & Converting safety composite

First Mate Printing & Converting scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 80% 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

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 65% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 80% 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

−2.6

2021→2024

First Mate Printing & Converting injury rate improved

First Mate Printing & Converting's TCR fell 2.6 from 2.6 in 2021 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 3.3 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=2.6 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 323111 · Gardner, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 58% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #17/40
  • PHOTO Navitor East - 0104
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~64 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Navitor East - 0104 (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Mate Printing & Converting in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Mate Printing & Converting averages 1.9 TCR (58% of the Commercial printing (except screen, books) BLS benchmark).

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

First Mate Printing & Converting TCR series: 2021=2.6 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=3.3 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where First Mate Printing & Converting falls in its industry

2,001 Commercial printing (except sc establishments

Safer than 65% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #17 safest of 40 Commercial printing (except sc employers in Massachusetts.

First Mate Printing & Converting (64 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate First Mate Printing & Converting
First Mate Printing & Converting (64 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

First Mate Printing & Converting has fewer employees than the Commercial printing (except screen, book median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.6. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 3.3 3.3 2 0 0
2022 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2021 2.6 1.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · MA · Gardner

2,001 Commercial printing (except screen, books) employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 37 employers in Gardner, 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 Navitor East - 0104 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Team Concept Printing 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR American Litho, Inc. 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Fortis Solutions Group (Wixom) 1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE System 7 Wolfers, Inc.-Beverly Office 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE kleeberg Mechanical Services LLC 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE William F. Lynch Co., Inc. 64 FTE
STATE-SIZE Industrial Transfer & Storage, Inc. 64 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heywood Hospital 1,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2155 297 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2155 258 FTE
CITY-NEAR GVNA HealthCare Inc 167 FTE
NAT-TCR Russellville Hospital 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR ARC Mechanical Contractors, Inc 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Standard Process 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR St Louis Marine 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE D85 Irvine 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Murray & Stafford Inc. 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Toms of Maine 64 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carroll Ia 64 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. 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.