Rulers, metal, manufacturing · Connecticut

New Britain Hand Tools

New Britain, CT · ~361 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

New Britain Hand Tools runs at 235% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Rulers, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

New Britain Hand Tools: 7.7 TCR = 235% of Rulers, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

New Britain Hand Tools safety composite

New Britain Hand Tools scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 11%), 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

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 7.74 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% 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

−0.8

2016→2018

New Britain Hand Tools injury rate improved

New Britain Hand Tools's TCR fell 0.8 from 9.0 in 2016 to 8.2 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 9.0 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.7× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=9.0 · 2017=6.0 · 2018=8.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332216 · New Britain, CT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 7.7 · 235% of ind

  • DART 5.4 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO BONDHUS CORPORATION
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 73 inj
  • SIZE ~361 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: BONDHUS CORPORATION (0.0 TCR gap)

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New Britain Hand Tools in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows New Britain Hand Tools averages 7.7 TCR (235% of the Rulers, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

New Britain Hand Tools TCR series: 2016=9 · 2017=6 · 2018=8.2 · BLS 3.3

Where New Britain Hand Tools falls in its industry

174 Rulers, metal, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 14% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Rulers, metal, manufacturing employers in Connecticut.

New Britain Hand Tools (361 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 New Britain Hand Tools
New Britain Hand Tools (361 employees, TCR 7.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 3.6

New Britain Hand Tools has more employees than the Rulers, metal, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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
2018 8.2 5.4 26 6 0
2017 6.0 4.5 21 2 0
2016 9.0 6.2 26 6 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332216 · CT · New Britain

174 Rulers, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 113 employers in New Britain, CT · 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 BONDHUS CORPORATION 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR 1120 Mason Circle 7.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Printron Steel Rule Die, Inc. 8.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bon Tool Warehouse 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE LACEY MANUFACTURING COMPANY LLC 361 FTE
STATE-SIZE FUJIFILM Medical Systems U.S.A., Inc- Stamford, CT 361 FTE
STATE-SIZE 2045-00037W 361 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stew Leonard's Danbury, LLC 362 FTE
CITY-NEAR Campus 2,582 FTE
CITY-NEAR HOSPITAL OF CENTRAL CT-NB 2,373 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Hospital of Central Connecticut-NB 2,042 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hospital For Special Care 1,176 FTE
NAT-TCR Senior Care of Corpus Christi ALF 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR New Iberia (Lanib) 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 0569 - Nampa, Id 7.7 TCR
NAT-TCR FTE Network Services 7.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Mannington US LVT 361 FTE
NAT-SIZE Minneapolis - St. Paul Airport (Mnmtp) 361 FTE
NAT-SIZE Poet LLC 361 FTE
NAT-SIZE MMR Office HQ 361 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: 2018, 2017, 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.