Building insulation contractors · Massachusetts

HWE Sutton Insulation

Sutton, MA · ~70 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.2
Avg TCR
2.8
Industry avg
1
Fatality
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The verdict

HWE Sutton Insulation runs at 542% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Building insulation contractors workplace, earning a grade F.

HWE Sutton Insulation: 15.2 TCR = 542% of Building insulation contractors BLS 2.8 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

HWE Sutton Insulation safety composite

HWE Sutton Insulation scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 4% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (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).

F

2/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.26 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

Fatalities
F 1

Safer than 1% 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

HWE Sutton Insulation: 16.3 → 18.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 18.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.81× in 2024

HWE Sutton Insulation's TCR rose 2.1 from 16.3 in 2022 to 18.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.81× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 238310 · Sutton, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.2 · 542% of ind

  • DART 12.3 DART
  • RANK #31/34
  • PHOTO Custom Insulation Co…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 28 inj
  • SIZE ~70 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Custom Insulation Co., Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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HWE Sutton Insulation in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows HWE Sutton Insulation averages 15.2 TCR (542% of the Building insulation contractors BLS benchmark).

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

HWE Sutton Insulation TCR series: 2022=16.3 · 2023=10.8 · 2024=18.4 · BLS 2.8

Where HWE Sutton Insulation falls in its industry

1,613 Building insulation contractor establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #31 safest of 34 Building insulation contractor employers in Massachusetts.

HWE Sutton Insulation (70 employees, TCR 15.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate HWE Sutton Insulation
HWE Sutton Insulation (70 employees, TCR 15.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 3.4

HWE Sutton Insulation has more employees than the Building insulation contractors median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.4. 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 18.4 12.3 11 1 0
2023 10.8 5.4 8 0 1
2022 16.3 12.7 9 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

238310 · MA · Sutton

1,613 Building insulation contractors employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 16 employers in Sutton, MA · 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 Custom Insulation Co., Inc. 15.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 361 15.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Performance Insulation - Central Oregon 15.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Big City Insulation of Idaho #896 14.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Holland Construction 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Structures Derek International sa 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE Beacon Piping Co. Inc. 70 FTE
STATE-SIZE EAC 6280 North East Paving 70 FTE
CITY-NEAR UN1F1ED2MA 509 FTE
CITY-NEAR AGS-MA 352 FTE
CITY-NEAR Primetals Technologies Sutton 286 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sutton, MA #244 259 FTE
NAT-TCR Edgewood Spring Creek Eagle 15.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Hollenbeck Maint. 15.2 TCR
NAT-TCR City of Charleston Public Works Garage 15.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Mohr Stamping Inc. 15.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Grocery Outlet Clackamas Warehouse 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE South San Francisco Scavenger Co. 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Crossroads Care Center 70 FTE
NAT-SIZE Volunteer Fire and Ambulance 70 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.