Exhaust systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing · Connecticut

Nickson

Plainville, CT · ~74 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
12.8
Avg TCR
5.4
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Nickson runs at 236% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Exhaust systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Nickson: 12.8 TCR = 236% of Exhaust systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS 5.4 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Nickson safety composite

Nickson scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 2%), 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

30/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 12.75 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% 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

Nickson: 7.5 → 18.0 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 18.0 TCR · DART/TCR 0.13× in 2024

Nickson's TCR rose 10.5 from 7.5 in 2023 to 18.0 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.13× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 336390 · Plainville, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 12.8 · 236% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO Nippon Thermostat of…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 5 inj
  • SIZE ~74 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Nippon Thermostat of America Corp. (0.2 TCR gap)

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Nickson in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Nickson averages 12.8 TCR (236% of the Exhaust systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Nickson TCR series: 2023=7.5 · 2024=18 · BLS 5.4

Where Nickson falls in its industry

772 Exhaust systems and parts, aut establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Exhaust systems and parts, aut employers in Connecticut.

Nickson (74 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2 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 02004006008001,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Nickson
Nickson (74 employees, TCR 12.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 154 employees and a TCR of 3.2

Nickson has fewer employees than the Exhaust systems and parts, automotive, t median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.2. 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 18.0 1.6 1 10 0
2023 7.5 7.5 4 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

336390 · CT · Plainville

772 Exhaust systems and parts, automotive, truck, and bus, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 59 employers in Plainville, 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 Nippon Thermostat of America Corp. 12.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Holt Sales and Service, LLC 13.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Magna Energy Storage Systems USA 12.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Premier Manufacturing Company 12.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE USA CT Shelton Waterview Dr 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crest Mechanical Services, Inc. 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Advanced Grow Labs 74 FTE
STATE-SIZE Crabtree & Evelyn, Ltd Manufacturing 74 FTE
CITY-NEAR Wheeler Clinic 495 FTE
CITY-NEAR Corporate Offices 462 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gems Sensors Plainville 377 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gems Sensors 288 FTE
NAT-TCR Lake Forest Place LLC 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Colonial Metal Products 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Los Angeles Ca - 324 12.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Central Transport - 171 171SH 12.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Integra Technologies Inc. 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE 307 Providence 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kidd's Services 74 FTE
NAT-SIZE ufp Folkston LLC 74 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. 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.