Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing · Massachusetts

Lawton Welding Co, Inc.

Topsfield, MA · ~121 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lawton Welding Co, Inc. runs at 18% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Lawton Welding Co, Inc.: 0.6 TCR = 18% of Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lawton Welding Co, Inc. safety composite

Lawton Welding Co, Inc. scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

72/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.58 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 59% 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

Lawton Welding Co, Inc.: 0.0 → 0.9 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 1.2 TCR · DART/TCR 1.48× in 2024

Lawton Welding Co, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.9 from 0.0 in 2019 to 0.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2020 at 1.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 1.48× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Topsfield, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade A · TCR 0.6 · 18% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK #1/12
  • PHOTO CMC Rebar San Antoni…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 4 inj
  • SIZE ~121 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CMC Rebar San Antonio West (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lawton Welding Co, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lawton Welding Co, Inc. averages 0.6 TCR (18% of the Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Lawton Welding Co, Inc. TCR series: 2019=0 · 2020=1.2 · 2021=0 · 2022=0.8 · 2023=0.7 · 2024=0.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Lawton Welding Co, Inc. falls in its industry

1,491 Structural steel, fabricated, establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 12 Structural steel, fabricated, employers in Massachusetts.

Lawton Welding Co, Inc. (121 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Lawton Welding Co, Inc.
Lawton Welding Co, Inc. (121 employees, TCR 0.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Lawton Welding Co, Inc. has more employees than the Structural steel, fabricated, manufactur median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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 0.9 0.9 1 0 0
2023 0.7 0.7 1 0 0
2022 0.8 0.8 1 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 1.2 0.0 1 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · MA · Topsfield

1,491 Structural steel, fabricated, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 6 employers in Topsfield, 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 CMC Rebar San Antonio West 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sabre Industries Hicksville, Ohio 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Thomas Industrial Fabrication 0.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Carl A. Nix Welding Service Inc 0.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Little Leaf Farms 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Yarmouth 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Somerville Electric 121 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Aulson Company, Inc. 121 FTE
CITY-NEAR Masconomet Healthcare Center 155 FTE
CITY-NEAR Fairview Machine 65 FTE
CITY-NEAR American Holdco 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Evans Industries, Inc. 37 FTE
NAT-TCR Modine Manufacturing Company - Racine 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Zones, LLC 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Homer Industries, LLC 0.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 6021080 - Repair of Administrative Spaces 0.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Trinity Living Center 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Store 1729 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE Acworth GA Truss 121 FTE
NAT-SIZE 3A Composites USA, Inc. 121 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, 2021, 2020, 2019. 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.