Coating metals and metal products for the trade · Massachusetts

Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc Agawam

Agawam, MA · ~24 workers · 5 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
1.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc Agawam runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Coating metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade A.

Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc Agawam: 1.6 TCR = 50% of Coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 5y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc Agawam safety composite

Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc Agawam scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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

54/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.65 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.12 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc Agawam: 0.0 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 4.1 TCR · DART/TCR 2.5× in 2020

Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc Agawam's TCR rose 4.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.1 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 4.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 2.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332812 · Agawam, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 50% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #2/14
  • PHOTO PRO-TEC Coating Comp…
  • BOOK 5y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: PRO-TEC Coating Company (0.0 TCR gap)

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Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc Agawam in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc Agawam averages 1.6 TCR (50% of the Coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc Agawam TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2018=0 · 2019=4.1 · 2020=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc Agawam falls in its industry

646 Coating metals and metal produ establishments

Safer than 82% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #2 safest of 14 Coating metals and metal produ employers in Massachusetts.

Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc Agawam (24 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc Agawam
Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc Agawam (24 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Oerlikon Balzers Coating USA Inc Agawam has fewer employees than the Coating metals and metal products for th median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2020 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2019 4.1 4.1 1 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332812 · MA · Agawam

646 Coating metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 65 employers in Agawam, 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 PRO-TEC Coating Company 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR vEC - St. Charles 1.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Praxair Surface Technologies Main Street 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plasma Processes 1.7 TCR
STATE-SIZE Savage Farms Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Salem Harbor Station 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Springfield Station 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE ATTLEBORO-MA04 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR Johnson Real Estate Investors, Inc 656 FTE
CITY-NEAR OMG, Inc. 517 FTE
CITY-NEAR ABC Express Delivery, Inc. 475 FTE
CITY-NEAR Diana's Bakery 308 FTE
NAT-TCR Hebrew Home & Hospital 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Capital Gallery Bakery Cafe 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR TX104 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR 1097 Prosper, Tx 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Signature Flight Support Houston-Ellington 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE SFS Omaha-244OMA 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Signature Flight Support Laredo 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Big Lots Store #5272 New Smyrna Beac 24 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: 2020, 2019, 2018, 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.