Pallet containers, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing · Massachusetts

Kamps Pallets Norwood

Norwood, MA · ~40 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Kamps Pallets Norwood runs at 273% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Pallet containers, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Kamps Pallets Norwood: 9.0 TCR = 273% of Pallet containers, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Kamps Pallets Norwood safety composite

Kamps Pallets Norwood scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 9.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 18.36 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Kamps Pallets Norwood: 5.6 → 21.4 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 21.4 TCR · DART/TCR 2.04× in 2024

Kamps Pallets Norwood's TCR rose 15.8 from 5.6 in 2022 to 21.4 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 2.04× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321920 · Norwood, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 273% of ind

  • DART 18.4 DART
  • RANK #13/20
  • PHOTO Greencastle
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~40 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Greencastle (0.0 TCR gap)

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Kamps Pallets Norwood in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Kamps Pallets Norwood averages 9.0 TCR (273% of the Pallet containers, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Kamps Pallets Norwood TCR series: 2022=5.6 · 2023=0 · 2024=21.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Kamps Pallets Norwood falls in its industry

952 Pallet containers, wood or woo establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 6.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #13 safest of 20 Pallet containers, wood or woo employers in Massachusetts.

Kamps Pallets Norwood (40 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Kamps Pallets Norwood
Kamps Pallets Norwood (40 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 51 employees and a TCR of 6.3

Kamps Pallets Norwood has fewer employees than the Pallet containers, wood or wood and meta median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 6.3. 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 21.4 18.4 7 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2022 5.6 5.6 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321920 · MA · Norwood

952 Pallet containers, wood or wood and metal combination, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 79 employers in Norwood, 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 Greencastle 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR SHEFFIELD CONTAINER CORPORATION 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Livermore Falls 9.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kamps Pallets Fort Worth 9.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Hyde Park Gas 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Springfield, MA 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Dacon Corporation 40 FTE
STATE-SIZE Herzog Contracting Corp. - GLX Constructors 40 FTE
CITY-NEAR HallKeen Assisted Living 717 FTE
CITY-NEAR MANOR - NORWOOD 660 FTE
CITY-NEAR NORWOOD (MANOR) 660 FTE
CITY-NEAR Home Market Foods 428 FTE
NAT-TCR General Mills Vernon Mill 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR 540-FC261 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Visiting Nurse Health System 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Detdc-B5510-Afh- Detroit Dc 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE Centric Texas Fiber 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minnesota State College Southeast Red Wing Campus 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Neuroscience Institute 40 FTE
NAT-SIZE Holiday Inn Durango 40 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.