Machine shops · Vermont

Lovejoy Tool Company, Inc.

Springfield, VT · ~35 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.2
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Lovejoy Tool Company, Inc. runs at 188% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Machine shops workplace, earning a grade D.

Lovejoy Tool Company, Inc.: 6.2 TCR = 188% of Machine shops BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Lovejoy Tool Company, Inc. safety composite

Lovejoy Tool Company, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.22 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−6.8

2016→2024

Lovejoy Tool Company, Inc. injury rate improved

Lovejoy Tool Company, Inc.'s TCR fell 6.8 from 10.5 in 2016 to 3.8 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 14.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.5 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=11.7 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=0.0 · 2023=14.5 · 2024=3.8

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332710 · Springfield, VT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.2 · 188% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #6/9
  • PHOTO PKL LLC
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~35 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PKL LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Lovejoy Tool Company, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Lovejoy Tool Company, Inc. averages 6.2 TCR (188% of the Machine shops BLS benchmark).

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

Lovejoy Tool Company, Inc. TCR series: 2016=10.5 · 2018=2.3 · 2019=11.7 · 2020=3.5 · 2021=3.6 · 2022=0 · 2023=14.5 · 2024=3.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Lovejoy Tool Company, Inc. falls in its industry

1,821 Machine shops establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Vermont alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 9 Machine shops employers in Vermont.

Lovejoy Tool Company, Inc. (35 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Lovejoy Tool Company, Inc.
Lovejoy Tool Company, Inc. (35 employees, TCR 6.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Lovejoy Tool Company, Inc. has fewer employees than the Machine shops median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2024 3.8 0.0 1 0 0
2023 14.5 3.6 4 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 3.6 0.0 0 1 0
2020 3.5 0.0 1 0 0
2019 11.7 2.9 3 1 0
2018 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2016 10.5 7.9 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332710 · VT · Springfield

1,821 Machine shops employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,065 rated employers in Vermont with headcount on file · 15 employers in Springfield, 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 PKL LLC 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rochester Manufacturing 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR BTM 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Norwich Machine shop 6.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Main Office 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Zero Gravity Craft Brewery (Bartlett Bay Road) 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE Green Mountain Kenworth 35 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAI-0033-0033-00326 FAC-00326-WAITSFIELD-VT 35 FTE
CITY-NEAR Reinhart - Black River Prod - 0569 167 FTE
CITY-NEAR Foodservice Black River Prod - 0569 138 FTE
CITY-NEAR Black River Produce 135 FTE
CITY-NEAR NAI-0033-0033-02531 FAC-02531-SPRINGFIELD-VT 103 FTE
NAT-TCR HCF of Findlay dba Fox Run Manor 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR World Transload & Logistics LLC 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR JM Streamline, Inc. 6.2 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Transport - 480 480SH 6.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE Designwear Inc 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wheatland Steel Processing 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Reily Foods Company - Wilmington Dc 35 FTE
NAT-SIZE Warren's Wood Works Inc 35 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, 2018, 2016. 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.