Ball bearings manufacturing · Connecticut

Heim Bearings

Fairfield, CT · ~150 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Heim Bearings runs at 92% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ball bearings manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Heim Bearings: 3.0 TCR = 92% of Ball bearings manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Heim Bearings safety composite

Heim Bearings scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 29%), 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).

D

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.03 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.63 per 100 workers

Safer than 29% 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

−2.5

2019→2024

Heim Bearings injury rate improved

Heim Bearings's TCR fell 2.5 from 5.1 in 2019 to 2.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.87× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2019=5.1 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=3.8 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=2.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332991 · Fairfield, CT AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.0 · 92% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #4/9
  • PHOTO Koyo Richland Plant
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 21 inj
  • SIZE ~150 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Koyo Richland Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Heim Bearings in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Heim Bearings averages 3.0 TCR (92% of the Ball bearings manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Heim Bearings TCR series: 2019=5.1 · 2020=2.1 · 2021=3.8 · 2023=1.4 · 2024=2.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Heim Bearings falls in its industry

125 Ball bearings manufacturing establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

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 9 Ball bearings manufacturing employers in Connecticut.

Heim Bearings (150 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Heim Bearings
Heim Bearings (150 employees, TCR 3.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Heim Bearings has more employees than the Ball bearings manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 2.6 4 0 0
2023 1.4 0.7 2 0 0
2021 3.8 2.3 5 0 0
2020 2.1 1.4 2 1 0
2019 5.1 4.6 8 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332991 · CT · Fairfield

125 Ball bearings manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 63 employers in Fairfield, 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 Koyo Richland Plant 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schaeffler Aerospace USA 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Corporate Philadelphia 2.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Schaeffler Group USA Inc. - Fort Mill 1 3.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cable Manufacturing 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE OFS Avon 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fiberoptics Technology, Inc. 150 FTE
STATE-SIZE MB Aerospace 150 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairfield Board of Education 1,670 FTE
CITY-NEAR 10317 Fairfield 266 FTE
CITY-NEAR Orthopaedic Specialty Group, P.C. 219 FTE
CITY-NEAR Ludlowe Center for health & rehab 206 FTE
NAT-TCR Comet Roll & Machine Co 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 2193 - Maple Grove North 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Bowen Facility 3.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 1295 - Greenbelt 3.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE ShopRite of Knorr Street 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2742 - Myrtle Beach SO 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE RT Western, Inc. 150 FTE
NAT-SIZE 2155 - Yulee 150 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.