Carbon specialties for aerospace use (except gaskets) manufacturing · Vermont

Kaman Composites - Vermont

Bennington, VT · ~196 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kaman Composites - Vermont runs at 241% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Carbon specialties for aerospace use (except gaskets) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Kaman Composites - Vermont: 8.0 TCR = 241% of Carbon specialties for aerospace use (except gaskets) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kaman Composites - Vermont safety composite

Kaman Composites - Vermont scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

20/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.95 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.08 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Kaman Composites - Vermont: 6.2 → 9.7 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 9.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2017

Kaman Composites - Vermont's TCR rose 3.5 from 6.2 in 2016 to 9.7 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 335991 · Bennington, VT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.0 · 241% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK P4
  • PHOTO National Carbon Tech…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 22 inj
  • SIZE ~196 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: National Carbon Technologies, LLC (0.2 TCR gap)

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Kaman Composites - Vermont in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kaman Composites - Vermont averages 8.0 TCR (241% of the Carbon specialties for aerospace use (except gaskets) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kaman Composites - Vermont TCR series: 2016=6.2 · 2017=9.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Kaman Composites - Vermont falls in its industry

93 Carbon specialties for aerospa establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Kaman Composites - Vermont (196 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 0100200300400 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Kaman Composites - Vermont
Kaman Composites - Vermont (196 employees, TCR 8.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 72 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Kaman Composites - Vermont has more employees than the Carbon specialties for aerospace use (ex median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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
2017 9.7 4.1 14 5 0
2016 6.2 4.0 8 3 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

335991 · VT · Bennington

93 Carbon specialties for aerospace use (except gaskets) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 42 employers in Bennington, VT · 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 National Carbon Technologies, LLC 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Graphite KY 7.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Composite Approach 6.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Tex-Tech Engineered Composites, LLC313320 9.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE Columbia Forest Products - Newport, VT 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE 4156 196 FTE
STATE-SIZE 8355 195 FTE
STATE-SIZE Vermont Permanency Initiative 197 FTE
CITY-NEAR Southwestern Vermont Medical Center 1,020 FTE
CITY-NEAR NSK Steering Systems America 305 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2289 265 FTE
CITY-NEAR United Counseling Service of Bennington County 231 FTE
NAT-TCR Texas City (Txtex) 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Athens (Gaath) 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Uge Grb 8.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Ft Lauderdale FL 8.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Northside Lexus 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Trumbull (Ohtru) 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lincoln (Nelin) 196 FTE
NAT-SIZE Durham Center (Ncdur) 196 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: 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.