Car bodies, kit, manufacturing · Massachusetts

New England Wheels Inc

Billerica, MA · ~54 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
9.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

New England Wheels Inc runs at 272% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Car bodies, kit, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

New England Wheels Inc: 9.0 TCR = 272% of Car bodies, kit, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

New England Wheels Inc safety composite

New England Wheels Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 5%), 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 8.98 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
F 10.05 per 100 workers

Safer than 5% 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

New England Wheels Inc: 7.9 → 10.1 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.1 TCR · DART/TCR 1.12× in 2024

New England Wheels Inc's TCR rose 2.1 from 7.9 in 2021 to 10.1 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.12× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336211 · Billerica, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 9.0 · 272% of ind

  • DART 10.1 DART
  • RANK P18
  • PHOTO Auto Truck Denver
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~54 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Auto Truck Denver (0.0 TCR gap)

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New England Wheels Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows New England Wheels Inc averages 9.0 TCR (272% of the Car bodies, kit, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

New England Wheels Inc TCR series: 2021=7.9 · 2024=10.1 · BLS 3.3

Where New England Wheels Inc falls in its industry

470 Car bodies, kit, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 5.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
New England Wheels Inc (54 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5 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 0100200300400500 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate New England Wheels Inc
New England Wheels Inc (54 employees, TCR 9.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 87 employees and a TCR of 5.5

New England Wheels Inc has fewer employees than the Car bodies, kit, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 5.5. 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 10.1 10.1 7 0 0
2021 7.9 5.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336211 · MA · Billerica

470 Car bodies, kit, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 89 employers in Billerica, 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 Auto Truck Denver 9.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kidron 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crysteel Mfg Inc. (Truck Bodies & Equipment International, Lake Crystal 8.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR HilArk Industries 8.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Pittsfield 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE 130 West Street Waltham-MAAG 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keith Construction Inc. 54 FTE
STATE-SIZE Truss Engineering Corporation 54 FTE
CITY-NEAR EMD Serono Research And Development Institute 608 FTE
CITY-NEAR Quanterix Headquarters 408 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bruker Scientific LLC 354 FTE
CITY-NEAR Digital Solutions : MS - Billerica, MA 342 FTE
NAT-TCR Central Transport - 661 661SH 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Valley Paving Inc. 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Triton Air Inc. 9.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Oswego Fire Protection District 9.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE B&C Steel Corporation 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Leaman Container Inc 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Albuquerque Nm - 339 54 FTE
NAT-SIZE Littell Steel Company, Inc. 54 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, 2021. 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.