Foam polystyrene products manufacturing · Connecticut

Polar Industries, Inc. - Gramar

Prospect, CT · ~39 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
14.8
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Polar Industries, Inc. - Gramar runs at 448% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Foam polystyrene products manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Polar Industries, Inc. - Gramar: 14.8 TCR = 448% of Foam polystyrene products manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Polar Industries, Inc. - Gramar safety composite

Polar Industries, Inc. - Gramar scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (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

14/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 14.79 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% of industry peers

DART rate
F 11.49 per 100 workers

Safer than 1% 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%).

TCR Δ

−0.9

2021→2023

Polar Industries, Inc. - Gramar injury rate improved

Polar Industries, Inc. - Gramar's TCR fell 0.9 from 15.2 in 2021 to 14.4 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2021 at 15.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=15.2 · 2023=14.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326140 · Prospect, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 14.8 · 448% of ind

  • DART 11.5 DART
  • RANK #5/5
  • PHOTO ASPEN TECHNOLOGIES I…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: ASPEN TECHNOLOGIES INC - Tennessee (0.2 TCR gap)

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Polar Industries, Inc. - Gramar in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Polar Industries, Inc. - Gramar averages 14.8 TCR (448% of the Foam polystyrene products manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Polar Industries, Inc. - Gramar TCR series: 2021=15.2 · 2023=14.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Polar Industries, Inc. - Gramar falls in its industry

260 Foam polystyrene products manu establishments

Safer than 2% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 5 Foam polystyrene products manu employers in Connecticut.

Polar Industries, Inc. - Gramar (39 employees, TCR 14.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Polar Industries, Inc. - Gramar
Polar Industries, Inc. - Gramar (39 employees, TCR 14.8) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Polar Industries, Inc. - Gramar has fewer employees than the Foam polystyrene products manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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 14.4 11.5 5 0 0
2021 15.2 2.5 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326140 · CT · Prospect

260 Foam polystyrene products manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 13 employers in Prospect, CT · 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 ASPEN TECHNOLOGIES INC - Tennessee 14.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR CPK-NJ 15.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Employ Source Staffing Solutions 15.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Texas Foam Inc. 15.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Water pollution control authority 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE AJ WASTE SYSTEMS LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE yrc 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE CEF CT 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR All-Star-Prospect 77 FTE
CITY-NEAR Prospect Volunteer Fire Department EMT 72 FTE
CITY-NEAR 163515-Prospect | CT | 163515 71 FTE
CITY-NEAR Sheldon Precision, LLC 53 FTE
NAT-TCR Plant Maintenance South 202 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Venture Machine & Tool Inc. 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR PVV 14.8 TCR
NAT-TCR Wellbridge of Rochester Hills 14.8 TCR
NAT-SIZE Farmhouse Pottery 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE AZZ Galvanizing - Arkansas 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE AZZ Galvanizing - Waskom 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE GreenWood, Inc.- Fuji Film 39 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, 2021. 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.