Injection molding machinery for plastics manufacturing · New York

Higgins Supply/C&H Plastics LLC

Waterville, NY · ~40 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Higgins Supply/C&H Plastics LLC runs at 192% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Injection molding machinery for plastics manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Higgins Supply/C&H Plastics LLC: 6.3 TCR = 192% of Injection molding machinery for plastics manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Higgins Supply/C&H Plastics LLC safety composite

Higgins Supply/C&H Plastics LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 79% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 79% 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

Higgins Supply/C&H Plastics LLC: 3.0 → 8.7 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 15.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Higgins Supply/C&H Plastics LLC's TCR rose 5.7 from 3.0 in 2019 to 8.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 15.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333249 · Waterville, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.3 · 192% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #19/20
  • PHOTO Precision Thermoplas…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Precision Thermoplastic Components Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Higgins Supply/C&H Plastics LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Higgins Supply/C&H Plastics LLC averages 6.3 TCR (192% of the Injection molding machinery for plastics manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Higgins Supply/C&H Plastics LLC TCR series: 2019=3 · 2020=0 · 2021=7.7 · 2022=2.9 · 2023=15.8 · 2024=8.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Higgins Supply/C&H Plastics LLC falls in its industry

448 Injection molding machinery fo establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #19 safest of 20 Injection molding machinery fo employers in New York.

Higgins Supply/C&H Plastics LLC (40 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Higgins Supply/C&H Plastics LLC
Higgins Supply/C&H Plastics LLC (40 employees, TCR 6.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 70 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Higgins Supply/C&H Plastics LLC has fewer employees than the Injection molding machinery for plastics median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 8.7 0.0 3 0 0
2023 15.8 6.3 5 0 0
2022 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2021 7.7 5.1 3 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 3.0 3.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333249 · NY · Waterville

448 Injection molding machinery for plastics manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 5 employers in Waterville, NY · 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 Precision Thermoplastic Components Inc 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Foundation Industries Company 6.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Roper Whiitney 6.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR PTR Tool And Plastics 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bilow Farms, LLC 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Farm 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Constantine Construction and Farm, Inc. 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Burrows Bros. Inc. 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR Harding Nursing Home DBA Waterville Residential Care Center 239 FTE
CITY-NEAR Waterville residential care center 200 FTE
CITY-NEAR C&H Plastics, Inc 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR 3999_7684 23 FTE
NAT-TCR Lutheran Hospital 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Battery Builders, LLC 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR GSM Services 6.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Store 0343 6.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Shaw El Dorado, LLC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Enovapremier LLC 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rocky Ford 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Engelbrecht Farms, LLC 40 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.