Print shops, flexographic (except printing books) · Massachusetts

Garlock Flexibles

Name: Garlock Flexibles Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Gardner, MA · ~91 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

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

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The verdict

Garlock Flexibles runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Print shops, flexographic (except printing books) workplace, earning a grade B.

Garlock Flexibles: 1.9 TCR = 56% of Print shops, flexographic (except printing books) BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Garlock Flexibles safety composite

Garlock Flexibles 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).

67/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): C 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 67% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Garlock Flexibles: 1.1 → 2.6 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 2.6 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Garlock Flexibles's TCR rose 1.4 from 1.1 in 2023 to 2.6 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

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

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 56% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #14/40
PHOTO Corporate Graphics N…
BOOK 2y book
INJ 3 inj
SIZE ~91 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Corporate Graphics North - 0028 (0.0 TCR gap)

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1.9
Corporate Grap

1.9
That's Great N

1.9
Orora Visual L

1.9
Liberty

1.9

What this shows Garlock Flexibles averages 1.9 TCR (56% of the Print shops, flexographic (except printing books) BLS benchmark).

Garlock Flexibles TCR series: 2023=1.1 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Garlock Flexibles falls in its industry

2,001 Print shops, flexographic (exc establishments

Safer than 67% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.6.

Grade B

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #14 safest of 40 Print shops, flexographic (exc employers in Massachusetts.

Garlock Flexibles (91 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 76 employees and a TCR of 2.6

Garlock Flexibles has more employees than the Print shops, flexographic (except printi 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	2.6	0.0	2	0	0
2023	1.1	1.1	1	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

323111 · MA · Gardner

2,001 Print shops, flexographic (except printing 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	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Corporate Graphics North - 0028	NORTH MANKATO, MN	1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	That's Great News	WALLINGFORD, CT	1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Orora Visual LLC	MESQUITE, TX	1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Liberty	LIBERTY, MO	1.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Weston Nurseries	HOPKINTON	91 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Wise Construction	WINCHESTER	91 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Atlantic Boston Construction	WOBURN	91 FTE
STATE-SIZE	CSI NE	ATTLEBORO	91 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Heywood Hospital	Gardner	1,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR	WM 2155	Gardner	297 FTE
CITY-NEAR	2155	Gardner	258 FTE
CITY-NEAR	GVNA HealthCare Inc	Gardner	167 FTE
NAT-TCR	International Paper Streetsboro Container	Streetsboro, OH	1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	DoubleTree Inn at the Colonnad	Baltimore, MD	1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	Warfield & Sanford, Inc.	Laurel, MD	1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR	TS Trim Industries Inc.	Canal Winchester, OH	1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE	ABF Freight 048	Elkridge, MD	91 FTE
NAT-SIZE	WVPA Headquarters	Indianapolis, IN	91 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Amco American Roofing Co	Salt Lake City, UT	91 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Pratt (Target Container), Inc	Bessemer, AL	91 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. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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