Washers, metal, manufacturing · Connecticut

Howard Engineering LLC

Naugatuck, CT · ~20 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Howard Engineering LLC runs at 452% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Washers, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Howard Engineering LLC: 14.9 TCR = 452% of Washers, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Howard Engineering LLC safety composite

Howard Engineering LLC scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.93 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

Howard Engineering LLC: 5.5 → 26.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 26.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Howard Engineering LLC's TCR rose 20.9 from 5.5 in 2022 to 26.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332722 · Naugatuck, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.9 · 452% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO SFS Group USA - Durant
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~20 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: SFS Group USA - Durant (0.2 TCR gap)

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Howard Engineering LLC in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Howard Engineering LLC averages 14.9 TCR (452% of the Washers, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Howard Engineering LLC TCR series: 2022=5.5 · 2023=12.8 · 2024=26.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Howard Engineering LLC falls in its industry

335 Washers, metal, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 1% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 Washers, metal, manufacturing employers in Connecticut.

Howard Engineering LLC (20 employees, TCR 14.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Howard Engineering LLC
Howard Engineering LLC (20 employees, TCR 14.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 80 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Howard Engineering LLC has fewer employees than the Washers, metal, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 26.4 0.0 2 2 0
2023 12.8 0.0 0 2 0
2022 5.5 5.5 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332722 · CT · Naugatuck

335 Washers, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 48 employers in Naugatuck, 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 SFS Group USA - Durant 14.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Deutsche Precision, LLC 16.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR LaSalle Plant 13.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Quality Bolt and Screw 13.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Charles River Avian Voluntown 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Newtown Gas 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Water & Sewer - Spring Street 20 FTE
STATE-SIZE Middletown Water Department 20 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2284 411 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2284 352 FTE
CITY-NEAR 226_321 211 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beacon Brook Health Care Center 209 FTE
NAT-TCR Rexburg ID DI 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Wingfield Skilled Nursing and Rehabilitation 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Maryvale School 14.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lakeview Memory Care 14.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Coca-Cola Bottling of Winona 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5751 - Springfield IL 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE Guaranteed Supply Company - Charlotte 20 FTE
NAT-SIZE 5230-Alamogordo 20 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. 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.