Rubber Product Manufacturing for Mechanical Use · Vermont

Garflex

Brattleboro, VT · ~119 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Garflex runs at 397% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Rubber Product Manufacturing for Mechanical Use workplace, earning a grade F.

Garflex: 13.1 TCR = 397% of Rubber Product Manufacturing for Mechanical Use BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Garflex safety composite

Garflex scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.1 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 14.04 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−0.6

2018→2022

Garflex injury rate improved

Garflex's TCR fell 0.6 from 14.7 in 2018 to 14.0 in 2022. Peak filing year was 2021 at 17.0 TCR. In 2022, DART was 1.07× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=14.7 · 2020=6.7 · 2021=17.0 · 2022=14.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326291 · Brattleboro, VT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 13.1 · 397% of ind

  • DART 14.0 DART
  • RANK P3
  • PHOTO Qualiform
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 56 inj
  • SIZE ~119 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Qualiform (1.0 TCR gap)

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Garflex in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Garflex averages 13.1 TCR (397% of the Rubber Product Manufacturing for Mechanical Use BLS benchmark).

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

Garflex TCR series: 2018=14.7 · 2020=6.7 · 2021=17 · 2022=14 · BLS 3.3

Where Garflex falls in its industry

266 Rubber Product Manufacturing f establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Garflex (119 employees, TCR 13.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Garflex
Garflex (119 employees, TCR 13.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 81 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Garflex has more employees than the Rubber Product Manufacturing for Mechani median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2022 14.0 14.0 2 0 0
2021 17.0 16.5 24 10 0
2020 6.7 5.1 13 0 0
2018 14.7 8.7 17 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326291 · VT · Brattleboro

266 Rubber Product Manufacturing for Mechanical Use employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 47 employers in Brattleboro, VT · 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 Qualiform 12.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR ACE Extrusion, LLC. 14.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR California 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Scientific Developments Inc Midwest Facility 11.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Dartmouth Journal Services 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE Laraway Youth & Family Services 119 FTE
STATE-SIZE GMP Operations HQ - Rutland 120 FTE
STATE-SIZE Putney Paper 118 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brattleboro Memorial Hospital 669 FTE
CITY-NEAR Brattleboro Retreat 661 FTE
CITY-NEAR G.S. Precision, Inc 360 FTE
CITY-NEAR CS Wholesale Grocers : Brattleboro, VT (GDC) 298 FTE
NAT-TCR Miami OCS* 13.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 170661-Blm-Woodbridge Sta 13.1 TCR
NAT-TCR 162136-Dixon Po 13.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakeview School 13.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cleveland Utilities - Electric Division 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shape Process Automation 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tops #215 119 FTE
NAT-SIZE Tops #264 119 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, 2018. 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.