Sandpaper manufacturing · New York

Saint-Gobain Abrasives

Watervliet, NY · ~133 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Saint-Gobain Abrasives runs at 147% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Sandpaper manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Saint-Gobain Abrasives: 4.9 TCR = 147% of Sandpaper manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Saint-Gobain Abrasives safety composite

Saint-Gobain Abrasives scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 68% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 47%), 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)
D 4.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 47% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.96 per 100 workers

Safer than 68% 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

−2.1

2016→2023

Saint-Gobain Abrasives injury rate improved

Saint-Gobain Abrasives's TCR fell 2.1 from 5.0 in 2016 to 2.9 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2017 at 9.5 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.2× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=5.0 · 2017=9.5 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=4.5 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=5.4 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=2.9

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327910 · Watervliet, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 4.9 · 147% of ind

  • DART 1.0 DART
  • RANK #8/15
  • PHOTO Stone Fox Staffing
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 30 inj
  • SIZE ~133 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Stone Fox Staffing (0.1 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 4.9 TCR (147% of the Sandpaper 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=5 · 2017=9.5 · 2018=2.1 · 2019=4.5 · 2020=7.5 · 2021=5.4 · 2022=1.9 · 2023=2.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Saint-Gobain Abrasives falls in its industry

90 Sandpaper manufacturing establishments

Safer than 47% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 15 Sandpaper manufacturing employers in New York.

Saint-Gobain Abrasives (133 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 0100200300400 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Saint-Gobain Abrasives
Saint-Gobain Abrasives (133 employees, TCR 4.9) 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 Sandpaper manufacturing median and a higher 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
2023 2.9 1.0 2 1 0
2022 1.9 0.9 2 0 0
2021 5.4 3.6 3 3 0
2020 7.5 5.7 6 2 0
2019 4.5 2.3 4 2 0
2018 2.1 2.1 3 0 0
2017 9.5 4.4 5 8 0
2016 5.0 4.3 5 2 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327910 · NY · Watervliet

90 Sandpaper manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 25 employers in Watervliet, NY · 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 Stone Fox Staffing 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Abrasive Technology - Elgin 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Flexovit USA Inc 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Radiac Abrasives Inc. 4.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Sungrow East LLC (formerly known as Intergrow East) 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE DGC Capital Contracting Corp. 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Sustainable Energy Developments Inc. (DBA GreenSpark Solar) 133 FTE
STATE-SIZE Albany Office 133 FTE
CITY-NEAR Comfortex Corporation 274 FTE
CITY-NEAR Watervliet #245 111 FTE
CITY-NEAR Peter Luizzi & Bros. Contracting, Inc. 107 FTE
CITY-NEAR ALBANY NY - 052 97 FTE
NAT-TCR Graphics Universal Inc 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Engineered Materials Solutions 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Sugar Foods Corporation 4.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Jacobs Heating and Air Conditioning, Inc. 4.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Owen Electric Cooperative 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Moveero Armstrong Iowa 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE CHF Industries, Inc. - Distribution Facility 133 FTE
NAT-SIZE Bosch Security Systems 133 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, 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.