Tile adhesives manufacturing · Massachusetts

Olympic Adhesives, Inc.

Norwood, MA · ~33 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Olympic Adhesives, Inc. runs at 176% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Tile adhesives manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Olympic Adhesives, Inc.: 5.8 TCR = 176% of Tile adhesives manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Olympic Adhesives, Inc. safety composite

Olympic Adhesives, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 82% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 16%), 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

48/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.82 per 100 workers

Safer than 16% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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

−2.3

2017→2024

Olympic Adhesives, Inc. injury rate improved

Olympic Adhesives, Inc.'s TCR fell 2.3 from 5.5 in 2017 to 3.2 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2019 at 11.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=5.5 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=11.2 · 2020=6.0 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=5.8 · 2023=9.2 · 2024=3.2

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325520 · Norwood, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.8 · 176% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #12/13
  • PHOTO Volunteer Pastilles,…
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~33 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Volunteer Pastilles, LLC Lake Charles Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Olympic Adhesives, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Olympic Adhesives, Inc. averages 5.8 TCR (176% of the Tile adhesives manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Olympic Adhesives, Inc. TCR series: 2017=5.5 · 2018=2.8 · 2019=11.2 · 2020=6 · 2021=2.9 · 2022=5.8 · 2023=9.2 · 2024=3.2 · BLS 3.3

Where Olympic Adhesives, Inc. falls in its industry

287 Tile adhesives manufacturing establishments

Safer than 16% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 13 Tile adhesives manufacturing employers in Massachusetts.

Olympic Adhesives, Inc. (33 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7 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 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Olympic Adhesives, Inc.
Olympic Adhesives, Inc. (33 employees, TCR 5.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 63 employees and a TCR of 2.7

Olympic Adhesives, Inc. has fewer employees than the Tile adhesives manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.7. 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 3.2 0.0 1 0 0
2023 9.2 9.2 3 0 0
2022 5.8 2.9 2 0 0
2021 2.9 2.9 1 0 0
2020 6.0 3.0 2 0 0
2019 11.2 0.0 4 0 0
2018 2.8 0.0 1 0 0
2017 5.5 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325520 · MA · Norwood

287 Tile adhesives manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 79 employers in Norwood, 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 Volunteer Pastilles, LLC Lake Charles Plant 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Rubex Inc 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR Functional Coatings LLC Newburyport Facility 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Superior Stone Products, Inc. 5.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Green City Growers 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Good Chemistry - Holliston 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Boston 33 FTE
STATE-SIZE NORTH ADAMS-MA27 33 FTE
CITY-NEAR HallKeen Assisted Living 717 FTE
CITY-NEAR MANOR - NORWOOD 660 FTE
CITY-NEAR NORWOOD (MANOR) 660 FTE
CITY-NEAR Home Market Foods 428 FTE
NAT-TCR KDC-One Northern Labs 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Napa Sanitation District 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR RAE Corporation 5.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Bug Busters Pest Control Services, Inc. 5.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE HMBL Carpinteria 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Atlas Roofing Corporation - Northglenn 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cleburne Metal Works dba Cleburne Sheet Metal 33 FTE
NAT-SIZE Danzeisen Dairy, LLC 33 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017. 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.