Blanks, cutting tool, manufacturing · Massachusetts

Richards Micro-Tool

Plymouth, MA · ~39 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

A
Excellent Safety Record
0.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Richards Micro-Tool runs at 27% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Blanks, cutting tool, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Richards Micro-Tool: 0.9 TCR = 27% of Blanks, cutting tool, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Richards Micro-Tool safety composite

Richards Micro-Tool scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (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).

C

73/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
B 0.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 74% 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

Richards Micro-Tool: 0.0 → 5.3 TCR

Peak year 2023 @ 5.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2023

Richards Micro-Tool's TCR rose 5.3 from 0.0 in 2018 to 5.3 in 2023. In 2023, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 333515 · Plymouth, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 0.9 · 27% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #1/7
  • PHOTO Vortex Tool Company,…
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~39 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Vortex Tool Company, Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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Richards Micro-Tool in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Richards Micro-Tool averages 0.9 TCR (27% of the Blanks, cutting tool, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Richards Micro-Tool TCR series: 2018=0 · 2019=0 · 2020=0 · 2021=0 · 2022=0 · 2023=5.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Richards Micro-Tool falls in its industry

221 Blanks, cutting tool, manufact establishments

Safer than 86% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 7 Blanks, cutting tool, manufact employers in Massachusetts.

Richards Micro-Tool (39 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 0200400600 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Richards Micro-Tool
Richards Micro-Tool (39 employees, TCR 0.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 71 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Richards Micro-Tool has fewer employees than the Blanks, cutting tool, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 5.3 0.0 1 0 0
2022 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2020 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

333515 · MA · Plymouth

221 Blanks, cutting tool, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 101 employers in Plymouth, 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 Vortex Tool Company, Inc 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sandvik Coromant PU Westminster 0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Arobotech Systems, Inc. 0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR CB Manufacturing & Sales Co., Inc. 0.9 TCR
STATE-SIZE Kendall Green Energy, LLC 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - Wrentham 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE PHRG BOS- RIO 39 FTE
STATE-SIZE WES Construction Corp. 39 FTE
CITY-NEAR Beth Israel Deaconess Plymouth 1,939 FTE
CITY-NEAR BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL-PLYMOUTH 1,790 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station 627 FTE
CITY-NEAR Tech Etch Plymouth 534 FTE
NAT-TCR Fort Worth Civil Constructors, LLC 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Munising Community Center 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Airtronics Inc 0.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Pds2 - Public Defense Services 0.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Weather Shield Mfg Inc. ---Vinyl Plant 04 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Alexander Hugh Brown 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE 8300 Hatchery Koch Foods of AL 39 FTE
NAT-SIZE Polyflex, Inc. 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. 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.