Cast iron brake shoes, railroad, manufacturing · Vermont
Hearth and Home Technologies - Bethel
Bethel, VT · ~20 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 0.0
- Avg TCR
- 3.3
- Industry avg
- 0
- Fatalities
The verdict
Hearth and Home Technologies - Bethel runs at 0% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Cast iron brake shoes, railroad, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.
- C
- Average Safety Record
- 0.0
- avg TCR · per 100 workers
- 3.3
- industry benchmark (BLS)
- 0
- recordable injuries tracked
Grade compares Hearth and Home Technologies - Bethel's OSHA Total Case Rate of 0.0 to the Cast iron brake shoes, railroad, manufacturing BLS benchmark of 3.3 (0% of benchmark) across 4 years of Form 300A filings (2016–2024). <a href="/methodology">See methodology</a> for reporting-limitation caveats.
Injury rate over time
Hearth and Home Technologies - Bethel's yearly Total Case Rate, against the 3.3 industry benchmark.
Where Hearth and Home Technologies - Bethel falls in its industry
281 Cast iron brake shoes, railroa establishmentsSafer than 99% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.2.
Trend analysis for Hearth and Home Technologies - Bethel
Between 2020 and 2024, Hearth and Home Technologies - Bethel's Total Case Rate held roughly steady from 0.0 to 0.0 recordable injuries per 100 full-time workers, a 0% change across 4 years of OSHA reporting.
The safest year on record was 2020, at a TCR of 0.0, while 2020 saw the highest rate, at 0.0, a spread of 0.0 points between the best and worst reporting years. That's a comparatively narrow spread, suggesting a fairly consistent safety record across the 4 years with a usable rate on file, rather than one outlier year skewing the multi-year average.
Summed across those 4 reporting years, Hearth and Home Technologies - Bethel recorded 0 total injuries and illnesses, with no fatalities reported in any of those years. Readers comparing establishments should weigh the 4-year trend above alongside establishment size, since a larger workforce naturally accumulates more raw incidents even at a lower per-100-worker rate.
Verify This Employer with OSHA
The 0 injuries shown on this page for Hearth and Home Technologies - Bethel are sourced from its own 4 years of mandatory OSHA Form 300A summaries. Cross-check the underlying establishment record directly against the federal source, name, NAICS classification, recordable case totals, and inspection history are all searchable on OSHA's Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data system.
Verify on OSHA Establishment SearchSource: U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Establishment-Specific Injury and Illness Data. NAICS 331511 - Cast iron brake shoes, railroad, manufacturing.
DART Rate, Transparent Calculation (2024)
What is the DART rate formula?
DART (Days Away, Restricted, or Transferred) is computed by OSHA as incidents × 200,000 ÷ hours worked. The 200,000-hour denominator equals roughly 100 full-time workers, which lets establishments of very different sizes be compared directly.
0 DART incidents × 200,000 ÷ 28,142 hours worked = 0.00 DART
Methodology: 29 CFR 1904, OSHA Form 300A recordkeeping
Cross-Validating Context, Establishment vs Industry vs State
| Benchmark | TCR | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Hearth and Home Technologies - Bethel (this establishment) | 0.00 | OSHA ITA Form 300A, 4-year avg |
| Gray iron foundries industry avg | 3.30 | BLS IIF, NAICS 331511 |
| Vermont state avg (all industries) | 6.71 | OSHA ITA, state-level rollup |
Industry benchmarks: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Injuries, Illnesses, and Fatalities (IIF) program
Reportable Incident Timeline
Year-by-year reportable incidents (recordable injuries + illnesses + fatalities) submitted by Hearth and Home Technologies - Bethel to OSHA's Injury Tracking Application. Each row anchors to OSHA's inspection records search where you can pull the underlying inspection case numbers and citations for that establishment-year.
- 2024: 0 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2023: 0 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2022: 0 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
- 2020: 0 reportable incidents · 0 injuries, 0 illnesses, 0 fatalities - OSHA inspection records (case numbers)
Source: OSHA Inspection Information System (IMIS) - inspection case-number records
Year-by-Year Safety Data
| Year | TCR | DART | Injuries | Illnesses | Fatalities |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What this grade means for you
Use this grade as a relative read on Hearth and Home Technologies - Bethel's reported OSHA injury record, strong versus its Cast iron brake shoes, railroad, manufacturing peers, but not a guarantee about any single site today.
- At 0% of the Cast iron brake shoes, railroad, manufacturing benchmark, Hearth and Home Technologies - Bethel reports fewer injuries than typical peers, still worth asking how safety is managed day to day. Know your rights
- Judge this record against the wider Cast iron brake shoes, railroad, manufacturing sector, where injury rates vary widely, before comparing it in isolation. See the industry
- Grades reflect 2016–2024 filings; check the latest establishment record straight from OSHA, or look up a different employer. Look up another
Safety grades reflect employers' self-reported OSHA Form 300A filings from 2016 to 2024 and can lag current conditions. A grade is not a guarantee that any specific workplace is safe or unsafe today. See our methodology and disclaimer.
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Every figure and grade on PlainSafetyScore is computed directly from OSHA's published Injury Tracking Application data and BLS industry benchmarks, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these safety grades, or report a data error. Data current as of 2016-2024 OSHA ITA release.