Inorganic chemicals merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

Iron Works Complex

Fall River, MA · ~37 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.9
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Iron Works Complex runs at 177% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Inorganic chemicals merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Iron Works Complex: 3.9 TCR = 177% of Inorganic chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Iron Works Complex safety composite

Iron Works Complex scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

24/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 3.9 per 100 workers

Safer than 21% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

Iron Works Complex: 2.9 → 5.0 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 5.0 TCR · DART/TCR 1.27× in 2018

Iron Works Complex's TCR rose 2.1 from 2.9 in 2017 to 5.0 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.27× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 424690 · Fall River, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 3.9 · 177% of ind

  • DART 5.0 DART
  • RANK #8/12
  • PHOTO Corechem, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Corechem, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Iron Works Complex in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Iron Works Complex averages 3.9 TCR (177% of the Inorganic chemicals merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Iron Works Complex TCR series: 2017=2.9 · 2018=5 · BLS 2.2

Where Iron Works Complex falls in its industry

766 Inorganic chemicals merchant w establishments

Safer than 21% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 1.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 12 Inorganic chemicals merchant w employers in Massachusetts.

Iron Works Complex (37 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9 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 050100150200 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Iron Works Complex
Iron Works Complex (37 employees, TCR 3.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 38 employees and a TCR of 1.9

Iron Works Complex has fewer employees than the Inorganic chemicals merchant wholesalers median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 1.9. 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 5.0 5.0 2 0 0
2017 2.9 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

424690 · MA · Fall River

766 Inorganic chemicals merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 138 employers in Fall River, 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 Corechem, Inc. 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Georgetown 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR nexAir Okeechobee Plant 3.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR TTS Distribution, Inc. 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Town of Danvers, Electric Division 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE MIDDLESEX GASES & TECHNOLOGIES, INC 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Western Builders 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Core Concepts Inc. 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charlton Memorial Hospital 1,944 FTE
CITY-NEAR Saint Anne's Hospital 1,586 FTE
CITY-NEAR North America Fulfillment Centers (FCs) : BOS7 1,388 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blount Fine Foods 1,169 FTE
NAT-TCR Hollingsworth and Vose Co. 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Metro Cruise Bayonne 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Birmingham BIR 3.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Cloverleaf Cold Storage-Chesapeake 3.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pacific Ethanol Columbia, LLC 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE InTech Integrated Marketing Services, LLC 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Texas Timber Frames 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE Brookdale Sweetwater Creek 37 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. 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.