Newspaper branch offices · Connecticut

HCMG Wawarme Avenue

Hartford, CT · ~97 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
0.7
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

HCMG Wawarme Avenue runs at 901% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Newspaper branch offices workplace, earning a grade F.

HCMG Wawarme Avenue: 6.3 TCR = 901% of Newspaper branch offices BLS 0.7 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HCMG Wawarme Avenue safety composite

HCMG Wawarme Avenue scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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

21/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 3.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% 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

−3.7

2016→2017

HCMG Wawarme Avenue injury rate improved

HCMG Wawarme Avenue's TCR fell 3.7 from 8.2 in 2016 to 4.4 in 2017. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.2 TCR. In 2017, DART was 0.53× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.2 · 2017=4.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 511110 · Hartford, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.3 · 901% of ind

  • DART 3.3 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO West Central Tribune
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~97 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: West Central Tribune (0.6 TCR gap)

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HCMG Wawarme Avenue in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HCMG Wawarme Avenue averages 6.3 TCR (901% of the Newspaper branch offices BLS benchmark).

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

HCMG Wawarme Avenue TCR series: 2016=8.2 · 2017=4.4 · BLS 0.7

Where HCMG Wawarme Avenue falls in its industry

61 Newspaper branch offices establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Newspaper branch offices employers in Connecticut.

HCMG Wawarme Avenue (97 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate HCMG Wawarme Avenue
HCMG Wawarme Avenue (97 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 89 employees and a TCR of 2.4

HCMG Wawarme Avenue has more employees than the Newspaper branch offices median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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
2017 4.4 3.3 4 0 0
2016 8.2 5.5 5 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

511110 · CT · Hartford

61 Newspaper branch offices employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 270 employers in Hartford, 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 West Central Tribune 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Janesville Gazette 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corrugated Containers 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rieger 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sarracco Mechanical 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE 570 - Hartford 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rex Lumber Co CT yard 97 FTE
STATE-SIZE Olin Brass - Somers Thin Strip 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR HARTFORD HOSPITAL 7,842 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Francis Hospital 4,674 FTE
CITY-NEAR LAZ Parking California, LLC 4,117 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hartford-Saint Francis Hospital 3,165 FTE
NAT-TCR AmeriGas - ACE - Yuba City, CA 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Dalton Facility 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR GS500 - GSU - Sacramento 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Recycling Services of Indiana 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Hillcrest Care Center Inc 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Stop & Shop 100415 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shiloh Pendergrass 97 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ryder Columbus 4919 97 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: 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.