Corrugated and solid fiber boxes made from purchased paper or paperboard · Massachusetts

New England Wooden Ware Corp

Gardner, MA · ~142 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
8.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

New England Wooden Ware Corp runs at 255% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Corrugated and solid fiber boxes made from purchased paper or paperboard workplace, earning a grade F.

New England Wooden Ware Corp: 8.4 TCR = 255% of Corrugated and solid fiber boxes made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

New England Wooden Ware Corp safety composite

New England Wooden Ware Corp scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 4%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.43 per 100 workers

Safer than 4% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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%).

Rising injury rate

New England Wooden Ware Corp: 3.6 → 9.3 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 13.4 TCR · DART/TCR 0.63× in 2024

New England Wooden Ware Corp's TCR rose 5.7 from 3.6 in 2016 to 9.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 13.4 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.63× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 322211 · Gardner, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade F · TCR 8.4 · 255% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #20/21
  • PHOTO Massachusetts Contai…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 35 inj
  • SIZE ~142 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Massachusetts Container Coporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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New England Wooden Ware Corp in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows New England Wooden Ware Corp averages 8.4 TCR (255% of the Corrugated and solid fiber boxes made from purchased paper or paperboard BLS benchmark).

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

New England Wooden Ware Corp TCR series: 2016=3.6 · 2017=4.9 · 2021=13.4 · 2022=10.9 · 2024=9.3 · BLS 3.3

Where New England Wooden Ware Corp falls in its industry

1,338 Corrugated and solid fiber box establishments

Safer than 4% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.4.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #20 safest of 21 Corrugated and solid fiber box employers in Massachusetts.

New England Wooden Ware Corp (142 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate New England Wooden Ware Corp
New England Wooden Ware Corp (142 employees, TCR 8.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 102 employees and a TCR of 2.4

New England Wooden Ware Corp has more employees than the Corrugated and solid fiber boxes made fr median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.4. 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 9.3 5.3 8 6 0
2022 10.9 4.6 8 11 0
2021 13.4 4.5 7 14 0
2017 4.9 4.9 7 0 0
2016 3.6 2.9 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

322211 · MA · Gardner

1,338 Corrugated and solid fiber boxes made from purchased paper or paperboard employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 37 employers in Gardner, 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 Massachusetts Container Coporation 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Volk Packaging Corporation 8.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR JaMar Packaging 8.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Harvest Container Company 8.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE NEL Corp Middleton 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE Fort Point 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE 99 Degrees Custom 142 FTE
STATE-SIZE NORTHAMPTON, MA 142 FTE
CITY-NEAR Heywood Hospital 1,092 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2155 297 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2155 258 FTE
CITY-NEAR GVNA HealthCare Inc 167 FTE
NAT-TCR United Dairymen of Arizona (Main Plant) 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Hallstrom Construction Inc. 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Scott Turbon Mixer, Inc. 8.4 TCR
NAT-TCR 55884 Tacoma 8.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Confidence Plumbing CO, Inc. 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE Raleys 415- Freeport Blvd 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rosanna inc 142 FTE
NAT-SIZE Carroll EMC 142 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, 2022, 2021, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.