Architectural metalwork merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

Karas & Karas Glass Co.,Inc

South Boston, MA · ~76 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.4
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Karas & Karas Glass Co.,Inc runs at 111% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Architectural metalwork merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Karas & Karas Glass Co.,Inc: 2.4 TCR = 111% of Architectural metalwork merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Karas & Karas Glass Co.,Inc safety composite

Karas & Karas Glass Co.,Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 71% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 46%), 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).

C

57/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.44 per 100 workers

Safer than 71% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.89 per 100 workers

Safer than 46% 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

Karas & Karas Glass Co.,Inc: 3.0 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 1.18× in 2023

Karas & Karas Glass Co.,Inc's TCR rose 1.4 from 3.0 in 2020 to 4.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 1.18× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423390 · South Boston, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 2.4 · 111% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #2/6
  • PHOTO 582 - SACRAMENTO-INT…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: 582 - SACRAMENTO-INT BRANCH (0.1 TCR gap)

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Karas & Karas Glass Co.,Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Karas & Karas Glass Co.,Inc averages 2.4 TCR (111% of the Architectural metalwork merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Karas & Karas Glass Co.,Inc TCR series: 2020=3 · 2021=0 · 2023=4.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Karas & Karas Glass Co.,Inc falls in its industry

168 Architectural metalwork mercha establishments

Safer than 71% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 6 Architectural metalwork mercha employers in Massachusetts.

Karas & Karas Glass Co.,Inc (76 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 050100150200250 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Karas & Karas Glass Co.,Inc
Karas & Karas Glass Co.,Inc (76 employees, TCR 2.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 39 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Karas & Karas Glass Co.,Inc has more employees than the Architectural metalwork merchant wholesa median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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 2.9 3 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.0 1.5 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423390 · MA · South Boston

168 Architectural metalwork merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 22 employers in South Boston, 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 582 - SACRAMENTO-INT BRANCH 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Brooklyn Park Warehouse 2.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR ABM Tomball 2.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arizon Air Structures World Wide 2.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Insa Springfield Recreational 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Hadley 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE SOMERSET-MA45 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Cutler Associates, Inc 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gillette Company South Boston Plant 1,256 FTE
CITY-NEAR McCourt Construction Company 248 FTE
CITY-NEAR 426 E. 1St St. 223 FTE
CITY-NEAR MA - South Boston, 426 E 1st St 155 FTE
NAT-TCR Bethel High School 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sunbelt Pool Products 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR East Central Oklahoma Electric Cooperative 2.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Mkg of Oak Grove 2.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Heiman, Inc. 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Greenwald & B.C. Inc. 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Peak Resources-Outer Banks 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE HEM Fombell 76 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, 2021, 2020. 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.