Abrasive products manufacturing · Massachusetts

Saint Gobain Abrasives

Worcester, MA · ~479 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Saint Gobain Abrasives runs at 104% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Abrasive products manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Saint Gobain Abrasives: 3.4 TCR = 104% of Abrasive products manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Saint Gobain Abrasives safety composite

Saint Gobain Abrasives scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 60% 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

55/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 3.42 per 100 workers

Safer than 60% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.87 per 100 workers

Safer than 54% 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%).

TCR Δ

−1.5

2016→2018

Saint Gobain Abrasives injury rate improved

Saint Gobain Abrasives's TCR fell 1.5 from 4.5 in 2016 to 3.0 in 2018. Peak filing year was 2016 at 4.5 TCR. In 2018, DART was 0.55× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=4.5 · 2017=2.8 · 2018=3.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327910 · Worcester, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.4 · 104% of ind

  • DART 1.9 DART
  • RANK #3/9
  • PHOTO Diamonite Plant
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~479 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Diamonite Plant (0.0 TCR gap)

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Saint Gobain Abrasives in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Saint Gobain Abrasives averages 3.4 TCR (104% of the Abrasive products manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Saint Gobain Abrasives TCR series: 2016=4.5 · 2017=2.8 · 2018=3 · BLS 3.3

Where Saint Gobain Abrasives falls in its industry

90 Abrasive products manufacturin establishments

Safer than 60% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 9 Abrasive products manufacturin employers in Massachusetts.

Saint Gobain Abrasives (479 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 Saint Gobain Abrasives
Saint Gobain Abrasives (479 employees, TCR 3.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Saint Gobain Abrasives has more employees than the Abrasive products manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2018 3.0 1.9 7 9 0
2017 2.8 1.8 6 8 0
2016 4.5 3.2 17 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327910 · MA · Worcester

90 Abrasive products manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 248 employers in Worcester, 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 Diamonite Plant 3.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Hermes Abrasives 3.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Abrasive Technology (Lewis Center, Ohio) 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Saint-Gobain Wheatfield, NY (Seeded) 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE 5 Omni Way Chelmsford MA 01824 479 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allways Healthcare 479 FTE
STATE-SIZE BOS-SPUSA 480 FTE
STATE-SIZE SIGNATURE MEDICAL GROUP 478 FTE
CITY-NEAR UMass Memorial Health 12,452 FTE
CITY-NEAR 4701-813 2,492 FTE
CITY-NEAR St Vincent hospital 1,965 FTE
CITY-NEAR NBC Distributors Inc 1,276 FTE
NAT-TCR Maricopa Medical Center 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Indian Lake Rehabilitation Center 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Nuttall Gear LLC 3.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Glen Oaks Health and Rehabilitation 3.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE The Westin Peachtree Plaza 479 FTE
NAT-SIZE Fayette Regional Health System 479 FTE
NAT-SIZE Panama City Mill 479 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corporate Office 479 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: 2018, 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.