Bar soaps manufacturing · Rhode Island

Original Bradford Soap Works, Inc.

West Warwick, RI · ~245 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Original Bradford Soap Works, Inc. runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bar soaps manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Original Bradford Soap Works, Inc.: 4.3 TCR = 131% of Bar soaps manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Original Bradford Soap Works, Inc. safety composite

Original Bradford Soap Works, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

26/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.31 per 100 workers

Safer than 22% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.39 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

Original Bradford Soap Works, Inc.: 3.9 → 4.8 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 4.8 TCR · DART/TCR 1.02× in 2024

Original Bradford Soap Works, Inc.'s TCR rose 0.9 from 3.9 in 2023 to 4.8 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 1.02× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325611 · West Warwick, RI ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 131% of ind

  • DART 4.4 DART
  • RANK P22
  • PHOTO Calvary Industries F…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 23 inj
  • SIZE ~245 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Calvary Industries Fairfield (0.0 TCR gap)

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Original Bradford Soap Works, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Original Bradford Soap Works, Inc. averages 4.3 TCR (131% of the Bar soaps manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Original Bradford Soap Works, Inc. TCR series: 2023=3.9 · 2024=4.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Original Bradford Soap Works, Inc. falls in its industry

240 Bar soaps manufacturing establishments

Safer than 22% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.3.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Original Bradford Soap Works, Inc. (245 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3 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 01,0002,0003,0004,000 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Original Bradford Soap Works, Inc.
Original Bradford Soap Works, Inc. (245 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 113 employees and a TCR of 2.3

Original Bradford Soap Works, Inc. has more employees than the Bar soaps manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.3. 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 4.8 4.4 13 0 0
2023 3.9 3.9 10 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325611 · RI · West Warwick

240 Bar soaps manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 1,610 rated employers in Rhode Island with headcount on file · 32 employers in West Warwick, RI · 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 Calvary Industries Fairfield 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pennsylvania - Royal Chemical 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Webco Chemical Corporation 4.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Best Sanitizers Inc 4.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Hinckley Comapny 247 FTE
STATE-SIZE 6458-ZPRO 243 FTE
STATE-SIZE Lifespan School Solutions 247 FTE
STATE-SIZE Kenyon Industries, Inc. 242 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cox Communications, West Warwick 514 FTE
CITY-NEAR Amtrol Inc West Warwick 415 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bradford Soap - WWRI 295 FTE
CITY-NEAR AstroNova Inc. 275 FTE
NAT-TCR Globe Tech 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Ag Land Services 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 1156 Ola32 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 3848 Ne Toledo 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE BrandSafway LLC - ExxonMobil Refinery - BR 245 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Guest House at Graceland 245 FTE
NAT-SIZE 8010543 Bridgestone Wilson NC 245 FTE
NAT-SIZE USS Midway Museum 245 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.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.