Pails, plastics, manufacturing · Massachusetts

Placon West Springfield

West Springfield, MA · ~87 workers · 2 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

Placon West Springfield runs at 50% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Pails, plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Placon West Springfield: 1.6 TCR = 50% of Pails, plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Placon West Springfield safety composite

Placon West Springfield scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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).

B

75/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 1.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 81% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

−3.3

2020→2023

Placon West Springfield injury rate improved

Placon West Springfield's TCR fell 3.3 from 3.3 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2020 at 3.3 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2020=3.3 · 2023=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · West Springfield, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.6 · 50% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #9/51
  • PHOTO GDC 1
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 3 inj
  • SIZE ~87 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: GDC 1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Placon West Springfield in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Placon West Springfield averages 1.6 TCR (50% of the Pails, plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Placon West Springfield TCR series: 2020=3.3 · 2023=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Placon West Springfield falls in its industry

2,838 Pails, plastics, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 81% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 51 Pails, plastics, manufacturing employers in Massachusetts.

Placon West Springfield (87 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Placon West Springfield
Placon West Springfield (87 employees, TCR 1.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Placon West Springfield has fewer employees than the Pails, plastics, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 3.3 3.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · MA · West Springfield

2,838 Pails, plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 63 employers in West Springfield, 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 GDC 1 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Mold-A-Matic Corporation 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sports Molding Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR MSI Express - Lacombe 1.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Construction Management & Builders, Inc. 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE D'Allessandro Corp. 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE B-G Mechanical Contractors, Inc. 87 FTE
STATE-SIZE North shore mechanical contractors 87 FTE
CITY-NEAR 0302 - WEST SPRINGFIELD MA WHSE 253 FTE
CITY-NEAR BHH - Baystate Home Health 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR East Region Customer Center 207 FTE
CITY-NEAR Bear Mountain 153 FTE
NAT-TCR Groton Town Hall Annex/PW Admin/OPDS 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Northern Coatings & Chemical Co., Inc. 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Jostens Shelbyville 1.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Waukon Feed Ranch Mill Site 1.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Haggerty Healthcare LLC dba Los Arcos Del Norte 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kenton County Justice Center 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE Key Safety Systems dba Joyson Safety Systems 87 FTE
NAT-SIZE District Office 87 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: 2023, 2020. 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.