General-purpose industrial machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers · Massachusetts

Methods Machine Tools, Inc

Sudbury, MA · ~255 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
2.1
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Methods Machine Tools, Inc runs at 95% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical General-purpose industrial machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade C.

Methods Machine Tools, Inc: 2.1 TCR = 95% of General-purpose industrial machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Methods Machine Tools, Inc safety composite

Methods Machine Tools, Inc scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 57% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 33%), 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

47/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 57% of industry peers

DART rate
F 1.85 per 100 workers

Safer than 33% 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

Methods Machine Tools, Inc: 1.5 → 4.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 4.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.89× in 2023

Methods Machine Tools, Inc's TCR rose 2.9 from 1.5 in 2019 to 4.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0.89× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423830 · Sudbury, MA AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 2.1 · 95% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #4/12
  • PHOTO CARL ERIC JOHNSON INC
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~255 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CARL ERIC JOHNSON INC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Methods Machine Tools, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Methods Machine Tools, Inc averages 2.1 TCR (95% of the General-purpose industrial machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Methods Machine Tools, Inc TCR series: 2019=1.5 · 2020=1.3 · 2021=1.4 · 2022=2 · 2023=4.3 · BLS 2.2

Where Methods Machine Tools, Inc falls in its industry

911 General-purpose industrial mac establishments

Safer than 57% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 12 General-purpose industrial mac employers in Massachusetts.

Methods Machine Tools, Inc (255 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0200400600800 02468 Average employees Total Case Rate Methods Machine Tools, Inc
Methods Machine Tools, Inc (255 employees, TCR 2.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 45 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Methods Machine Tools, Inc has more employees than the General-purpose industrial machinery and median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 1.9 7 0 0
2022 2.0 1.0 4 0 0
2021 1.4 0.9 3 0 0
2020 1.3 0.3 4 0 0
2019 1.5 0.6 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423830 · MA · Sudbury

911 General-purpose industrial machinery and equipment merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 23 employers in Sudbury, 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 CARL ERIC JOHNSON INC 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Stewart & Stevenson - Harvey Branch 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Beard Equipment Company of Mobile 2.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR 06018-06-06-SALINAS 2.1 TCR
STATE-SIZE 5472-000000602 255 FTE
STATE-SIZE 10452 Lynnfield 255 FTE
STATE-SIZE 1281 - Milford 255 FTE
STATE-SIZE Schumacher Companies 255 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cavicchio Greenhouses Inc. 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR ROCHE BROS - SUDBURY SSF 206 FTE
CITY-NEAR 10691 Sudbury 202 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sudbury Farms - Sudbury 192 FTE
NAT-TCR Vernet US Corporation 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Stellar Industrial Solutions Inc. 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Nucor Tubular Product Inc. Decatur 2.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Robinson Pipe Cleaning Company 2.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Domino Amjet, Inc. - Sales & Service 255 FTE
NAT-SIZE Monterey Peninsula Country Club 255 FTE
NAT-SIZE Voith Paper Products and Service 255 FTE
NAT-SIZE Airtron San Antonio 255 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.