Machine shops · Connecticut

Forrest Machine Inc.

Berlin, CT · ~73 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Forrest Machine Inc. runs at 60% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade B.

Forrest Machine Inc.: 2.0 TCR = 60% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Forrest Machine Inc. safety composite

Forrest Machine Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 74% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 42%), 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

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.97 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.27 per 100 workers

Safer than 42% 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

Forrest Machine Inc.: 1.2 → 2.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.64× in 2024

Forrest Machine Inc.'s TCR rose 1.3 from 1.2 in 2020 to 2.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.64× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Berlin, CT AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.0 · 60% of ind

  • DART 1.3 DART
  • RANK #9/32
  • PHOTO Stanley Engineering …
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~73 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stanley Engineering Co LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Forrest Machine Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Forrest Machine Inc. averages 2.0 TCR (60% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Forrest Machine Inc. TCR series: 2020=1.2 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Forrest Machine Inc. falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 74% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 32 Machine shops employers in Connecticut.

Forrest Machine Inc. (73 employees, TCR 2.0) 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 Forrest Machine Inc.
Forrest Machine Inc. (73 employees, TCR 2.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Forrest Machine Inc. 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
2024 2.5 1.3 2 0 0
2023 2.2 0.0 2 0 0
2020 1.2 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · CT · Berlin

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 71 employers in Berlin, CT · 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 Stanley Engineering Co LLC 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Seward Screw, LLC 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR LibertyBit Co. 2.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Grace Precision Products 2.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE CECO Concrete : Hartford 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Platt Bros. & Co., Inc 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE Connecticut Division 73 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6203 BERLIN 73 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eversource - Berlin 1,244 FTE
CITY-NEAR 12121 485 FTE
CITY-NEAR 222 New Park Dr 469 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corbin Russwin 337 FTE
NAT-TCR Elmhurst , IL - 01 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR MECHANICSBURG 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Fixture Concepts Inc. 2.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Atlantis Corporation East 2.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Flat Rock Care Center 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Mars Mo 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Milwaukee Plate Glass Company 73 FTE
NAT-SIZE Plant Morrow 73 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, 2020. 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.