Bleaches, formulated for household use, manufacturing · Massachusetts

James Austin Company Ludlow Plant

Ludlow, MA · ~59 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

James Austin Company Ludlow Plant runs at 114% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Bleaches, formulated for household use, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

James Austin Company Ludlow Plant: 3.8 TCR = 114% of Bleaches, formulated for household use, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

James Austin Company Ludlow Plant safety composite

James Austin Company Ludlow Plant scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 41%), 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

46/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.76 per 100 workers

Safer than 41% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 48% 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%).

TCR Δ

−2.8

2018→2023

James Austin Company Ludlow Plant injury rate improved

James Austin Company Ludlow Plant's TCR fell 2.8 from 7.0 in 2018 to 4.3 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2018 at 7.0 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.38× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=7.0 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=4.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325612 · Ludlow, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.8 · 114% of ind

  • DART 1.4 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Belle Mead
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 13 inj
  • SIZE ~59 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Belle Mead (0.0 TCR gap)

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James Austin Company Ludlow Plant in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows James Austin Company Ludlow Plant averages 3.8 TCR (114% of the Bleaches, formulated for household use, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

James Austin Company Ludlow Plant TCR series: 2018=7 · 2019=3.6 · 2020=1.7 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=1.5 · 2023=4.3 · BLS 3.3

Where James Austin Company Ludlow Plant falls in its industry

143 Bleaches, formulated for house establishments

Safer than 41% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Bleaches, formulated for house employers in Massachusetts.

James Austin Company Ludlow Plant (59 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate James Austin Company Ludlow Plant
James Austin Company Ludlow Plant (59 employees, TCR 3.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.9

James Austin Company Ludlow Plant has fewer employees than the Bleaches, formulated for household use, median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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
2023 4.3 1.4 3 0 0
2022 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2021 4.5 1.5 3 0 0
2020 1.7 0.0 1 0 0
2019 3.6 1.8 2 0 0
2018 7.0 3.5 3 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325612 · MA · Ludlow

143 Bleaches, formulated for household use, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 23 employers in Ludlow, 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 Belle Mead 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Malco Products, Inc. Alliance 3.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Lighthouse FSQ, LLC 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Zep Inc. 3.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Brookdale Ave 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Structures Derek International sa 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Grattan Line Construction 59 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ballard - Mid-Atlantic 59 FTE
CITY-NEAR Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of Western MA 238 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kleeberg SheetMetal 161 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kleeberg Sheet Metal 159 FTE
CITY-NEAR Big Y Foods, Inc. Ludlow 153 FTE
NAT-TCR W. M. Kelley Company, Inc. 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Cohoes #036 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Washington Traffic Control 3.8 TCR
NAT-TCR HEADQUARTERS : Fire Academy 3.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Estates at Greeley 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hotel Lincoln 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peru 59 FTE
NAT-SIZE Ski Magic LLC 59 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.