Road construction and maintenance machinery merchant wholesalers · Connecticut

Howard P. Fairfield LLC dba WH Rose

Columbia, CT · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
13.8
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Howard P. Fairfield LLC dba WH Rose runs at 625% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Road construction and maintenance machinery merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade F.

Howard P. Fairfield LLC dba WH Rose: 13.8 TCR = 625% of Road construction and maintenance machinery merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Howard P. Fairfield LLC dba WH Rose safety composite

Howard P. Fairfield LLC dba WH Rose scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 0%), 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

13/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 13.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 0% 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 P. Fairfield LLC dba WH Rose: 9.5 → 31.8 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 31.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.15× in 2018

Howard P. Fairfield LLC dba WH Rose's TCR rose 22.3 from 9.5 in 2016 to 31.8 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.15× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423810 · Columbia, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 13.8 · 625% of ind

  • DART 15.9 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO PMCO The Dalles
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PMCO The Dalles (0.2 TCR gap)

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Howard P. Fairfield LLC dba WH Rose in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Howard P. Fairfield LLC dba WH Rose averages 13.8 TCR (625% of the Road construction and maintenance machinery merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Howard P. Fairfield LLC dba WH Rose TCR series: 2016=9.5 · 2017=0 · 2018=31.8 · BLS 2.2

Where Howard P. Fairfield LLC dba WH Rose falls in its industry

533 Road construction and maintena establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

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 5 Road construction and maintena employers in Connecticut.

Howard P. Fairfield LLC dba WH Rose (21 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 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 0100200300 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Howard P. Fairfield LLC dba WH Rose
Howard P. Fairfield LLC dba WH Rose (21 employees, TCR 13.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Howard P. Fairfield LLC dba WH Rose has fewer employees than the Road construction and maintenance machin 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
2018 31.8 15.9 2 4 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 9.5 4.8 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423810 · CT · Columbia

533 Road construction and maintenance machinery merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 6 employers in Columbia, 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 PMCO The Dalles 13.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR TEC 33 13.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR GF Boulder City, NV 13.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR McClung-Logan Richmond Branch 14.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE Milford Power Company LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE E&N Associates, LLC 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Epifano Builders Inc. 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE NA-US-CT-East Granby-International Drive 21 FTE
CITY-NEAR EASTCONN Transportation 177 FTE
CITY-NEAR Columbia Manufacturing Inc 92 FTE
CITY-NEAR Town of Columbia 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Scalise 23 FTE
NAT-TCR Digger's Landscaping, Inc 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Virginia Beach Health and Rehabiliation Center 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR 021/Tacoma 13.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Hammonton 13.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Arrow Exterminators Boca Raton 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Norfolk - 70-02 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fischbach 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brentwood - Shared Health 21 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: 2018, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.