Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing · Massachusetts

Plastic Design, Inc.

N. Chelmsford, MA · ~47 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
18.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Plastic Design, Inc. runs at 566% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Plastic Design, Inc.: 18.7 TCR = 566% of Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Plastic Design, Inc. safety composite

Plastic Design, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 1%), 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

18/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 18.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 15% 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

Plastic Design, Inc.: 10.7 → 26.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 26.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.29× in 2024

Plastic Design, Inc.'s TCR rose 16.0 from 10.7 in 2023 to 26.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326199 · N. Chelmsford, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 18.7 · 566% of ind

  • DART 5.3 DART
  • RANK #51/51
  • PHOTO Lincoln- Plant 1
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 15 inj
  • SIZE ~47 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Lincoln- Plant 1 (0.1 TCR gap)

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Plastic Design, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Plastic Design, Inc. averages 18.7 TCR (566% of the Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Plastic Design, Inc. TCR series: 2023=10.7 · 2024=26.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Plastic Design, Inc. falls in its industry

2,838 Tanks, storage, plastics or fi establishments

Safer than 1% 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 #51 safest of 51 Tanks, storage, plastics or fi employers in Massachusetts.

Plastic Design, Inc. (47 employees, TCR 18.7) 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 Plastic Design, Inc.
Plastic Design, Inc. (47 employees, TCR 18.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 101 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Plastic Design, Inc. has fewer employees than the Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, median and a higher 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
2024 26.7 5.3 10 0 0
2023 10.7 6.4 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326199 · MA · N. Chelmsford

2,838 Tanks, storage, plastics or fiberglass, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 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 Lincoln- Plant 1 18.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR ClearForm 18.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Win-Dor, Inc. 18.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Woodland Plastics Corporation 19.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rockwell Roofing, Inc 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE Pioneer Valley Photovoltaics Cooperative, Inc 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE MONSON-MA23 47 FTE
STATE-SIZE 855-NiSource-Westborough MA 47 FTE
NAT-TCR Jan-Ground Ops 18.7 TCR
NAT-TCR East Haven Public Services 18.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Waupaca Foundry - Plant 1 OS Michigan 18.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Genet St 18.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Cedar Park 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Evercompounds LLC 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Powers Generator Service, LLC 47 FTE
NAT-SIZE Nicomatic LLC 47 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.