Coating metals and metal products for the trade · Connecticut

Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc - Manchester, CT

Manchester, CT · ~43 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc - Manchester, CT runs at 14% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Coating metals and metal products for the trade workplace, earning a grade A.

Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc - Manchester, CT: 0.5 TCR = 14% of Coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc - Manchester, CT safety composite

Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc - Manchester, CT scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 97% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 51%), 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

80/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
A 0.46 per 100 workers

Safer than 97% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 82% 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%).

Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc - Manchester, CT held a steady TCR band

Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc - Manchester, CT's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 1.8 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=0.0 · 2017=0.0 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332812 · Manchester, CT AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.5 · 14% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/13
  • PHOTO Steel Painters LLC
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~43 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Steel Painters LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc - Manchester, CT in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc - Manchester, CT averages 0.5 TCR (14% of the Coating metals and metal products for the trade BLS benchmark).

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

Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc - Manchester, CT TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=0 · 2019=1.8 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc - Manchester, CT falls in its industry

646 Coating metals and metal produ establishments

Safer than 97% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 13 Coating metals and metal produ employers in Connecticut.

Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc - Manchester, CT (43 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9 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 0200400600 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc - Manchester, CT
Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc - Manchester, CT (43 employees, TCR 0.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 58 employees and a TCR of 3.9

Praxair Surface Technologies, Inc - Manchester, CT has fewer employees than the Coating metals and metal products for th median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.9. 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
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 1.8 0.0 1 0 0
2017 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332812 · CT · Manchester

646 Coating metals and metal products for the trade employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 145 employers in Manchester, 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 Steel Painters LLC 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Texas Nameplate Company 0.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Midwest Mold & Texture Corporation 0.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4539_9887 0.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Franklin 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Middletown Power LLC 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Bismark Construction Company, Inc. 43 FTE
STATE-SIZE Paganelli Construction Corp 43 FTE
CITY-NEAR Manchester Memorial Hospital 1,652 FTE
CITY-NEAR 235 MANCHESTER CT 412 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 1891 387 FTE
CITY-NEAR Home Office 381 FTE
NAT-TCR Company Office 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mid Atlantic Carpet, Inc. 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Aeon PEC 0.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Procter & Gamble Dist. Co. 0.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Royal Brass and Hose - KY 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rochester 17 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE EarthKind, LLC. 43 FTE
NAT-SIZE Luther Burnsville Hyundai 43 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: 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.