Bearings, ball and roller, manufacturing · Connecticut

RBC Bearings, Aircraft Products, Inc.

Torrington, CT · ~252 workers · 3 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

RBC Bearings, Aircraft Products, Inc. runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Bearings, ball and roller, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

RBC Bearings, Aircraft Products, Inc.: 4.3 TCR = 131% of Bearings, ball and roller, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

RBC Bearings, Aircraft Products, Inc. safety composite

RBC Bearings, Aircraft Products, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 9%), 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

28/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 4.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 32% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% 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

RBC Bearings, Aircraft Products, Inc.: 2.2 → 5.9 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.29× in 2019

RBC Bearings, Aircraft Products, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.7 from 2.2 in 2016 to 5.9 in 2019. In 2019, DART was 1.29× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332991 · Torrington, CT ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 131% of ind

  • DART 5.6 DART
  • RANK #6/9
  • PHOTO New Hampshire Ball B…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 32 inj
  • SIZE ~252 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: New Hampshire Ball Bearings - Chatsworth (0.2 TCR gap)

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RBC Bearings, Aircraft Products, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows RBC Bearings, Aircraft Products, Inc. averages 4.3 TCR (131% of the Bearings, ball and roller, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

RBC Bearings, Aircraft Products, Inc. TCR series: 2016=2.2 · 2018=4.8 · 2019=5.9 · BLS 3.3

Where RBC Bearings, Aircraft Products, Inc. falls in its industry

125 Bearings, ball and roller, man establishments

Safer than 32% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 9 Bearings, ball and roller, man employers in Connecticut.

RBC Bearings, Aircraft Products, Inc. (252 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate RBC Bearings, Aircraft Products, Inc.
RBC Bearings, Aircraft Products, Inc. (252 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 2.8

RBC Bearings, Aircraft Products, Inc. has more employees than the Bearings, ball and roller, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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
2019 5.9 5.6 15 1 0
2018 4.8 4.0 12 0 0
2016 2.2 1.8 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332991 · CT · Torrington

125 Bearings, ball and roller, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 87 employers in Torrington, 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 New Hampshire Ball Bearings - Chatsworth 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hiddenite 4.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bucyrus 4.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR RBC Sonic Industries 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Advance Mold and Manufacturing 252 FTE
STATE-SIZE East Haven Markets LLC dba ShopRite of East Haven 252 FTE
STATE-SIZE ESSEX 252 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Watermark at 3030 Park 252 FTE
CITY-NEAR CHARLOTTE HUNGERFORD HOSPITAL 949 FTE
CITY-NEAR Charlotte Hungerford Hospital (540) 924 FTE
CITY-NEAR O&G Entire Company 801 FTE
CITY-NEAR O&G Industries, Inc. 783 FTE
NAT-TCR Watauga 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0019 1047 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 6400-Swy 0027 1563 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR 6962-Swy 0029 2285 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of North Alabama(Formerly HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hos. 252 FTE
NAT-SIZE Multnomah County Bldg 437 / Multnomah Co. East 252 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alabama Power Company - Miller Plant 252 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lifetouch National School Studios - Chattanooga Plant 252 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: 2019, 2018, 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.