Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing · Massachusetts

First Plastics Corp

Leominster, MA · ~53 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

First Plastics Corp runs at 201% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

First Plastics Corp: 6.6 TCR = 201% of Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

First Plastics Corp safety composite

First Plastics Corp scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 20%), 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

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 20% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

2016→2024

First Plastics Corp injury rate improved

First Plastics Corp's TCR fell 0.4 from 6.7 in 2016 to 6.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 11.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.57× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=6.7 · 2017=11.5 · 2018=9.9 · 2020=0.0 · 2021=6.5 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=7.0 · 2024=6.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · Leominster, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.6 · 201% of ind

  • DART 3.8 DART
  • RANK #40/51
  • PHOTO Better Way Products …
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~53 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Better Way Products Valdosta, GA (0.0 TCR gap)

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First Plastics Corp in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows First Plastics Corp averages 6.6 TCR (201% of the Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

First Plastics Corp TCR series: 2016=6.7 · 2017=11.5 · 2018=9.9 · 2020=0 · 2021=6.5 · 2022=5.3 · 2023=7 · 2024=6.3 · BLS 3.3

Where First Plastics Corp falls in its industry

2,838 Awnings, rigid plastics or fib establishments

Safer than 20% 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 #40 safest of 51 Awnings, rigid plastics or fib employers in Massachusetts.

First Plastics Corp (53 employees, TCR 6.6) 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 First Plastics Corp
First Plastics Corp (53 employees, TCR 6.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

First Plastics Corp has fewer employees than the Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, m 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
2024 6.3 3.8 5 0 0
2023 7.0 5.3 4 0 0
2022 5.3 0.0 4 0 0
2021 6.5 0.0 1 1 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 9.9 6.6 3 0 0
2017 11.5 8.6 4 0 0
2016 6.7 3.3 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · MA · Leominster

2,838 Awnings, rigid plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 107 employers in Leominster, 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 Better Way Products Valdosta, GA 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Andersen Corporation 6.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Myers industries 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR CertainTeed 6.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Insa Salem 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northfield Mountain 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE Campanelli 53 FTE
STATE-SIZE H.P. Cummings Construction Company 53 FTE
CITY-NEAR HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital 976 FTE
CITY-NEAR Affordable Interior Systems INC. 730 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Basket #16 433 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2964 333 FTE
NAT-TCR Branch 34 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Erieview Metal Treating Co 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Sheraton Waikiki 6.6 TCR
NAT-TCR AdventHealth Carrollwood 6.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE NNW 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE Sanitation - operations 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE XBX 53 FTE
NAT-SIZE US Ecology Idaho 53 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, 2020, 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.