Ceramic fiber manufacturing · Massachusetts

Saint-Gobain Grains and Powders

Northampton, MA · ~24 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.6
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Saint-Gobain Grains and Powders runs at 169% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Ceramic fiber manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Saint-Gobain Grains and Powders: 5.6 TCR = 169% of Ceramic fiber manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Saint-Gobain Grains and Powders safety composite

Saint-Gobain Grains and Powders scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 75% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 6%), 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).

D

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 6% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 75% 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

−11.1

2023→2024

Saint-Gobain Grains and Powders injury rate improved

Saint-Gobain Grains and Powders's TCR fell 11.1 from 11.1 in 2023 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 11.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=11.1 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327999 · Northampton, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.6 · 169% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P6
  • PHOTO Custom Building Prod…
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 1 inj
  • SIZE ~24 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Custom Building Products SCKC (0.1 TCR gap)

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Saint-Gobain Grains and Powders in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Saint-Gobain Grains and Powders averages 5.6 TCR (169% of the Ceramic fiber manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Saint-Gobain Grains and Powders TCR series: 2023=11.1 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Saint-Gobain Grains and Powders falls in its industry

95 Ceramic fiber manufacturing establishments

Safer than 6% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.2.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Saint-Gobain Grains and Powders (24 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 2.2 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 Saint-Gobain Grains and Powders
Saint-Gobain Grains and Powders (24 employees, TCR 5.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 2.2

Saint-Gobain Grains and Powders has fewer employees than the Ceramic fiber manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.2. 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
2024 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 11.1 0.0 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327999 · MA · Northampton

95 Ceramic fiber manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 40 employers in Northampton, 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 Custom Building Products SCKC 5.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR VFG Technology 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Armortex 5.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR US MIX CO 5.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Savage Farms Inc. 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE Salem Harbor Station 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Springfield Station 24 FTE
STATE-SIZE ATTLEBORO-MA04 24 FTE
CITY-NEAR COOLEY DICKINSON HOSPITAL 1,525 FTE
CITY-NEAR Cooley Dickinson Practice Assoc. 483 FTE
CITY-NEAR COOLEY DICKINSON PRACTICE ASSOCIATES 474 FTE
CITY-NEAR Coca-Cola Northampton 328 FTE
NAT-TCR Chr Hansen - New Berlin 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Terranova Ranch, Inc 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Ameripack Foods LLC 5.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Danbury Brunswick 5.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE badger environmental & earthworks inc 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE GVEC Cuero SOC 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE 06 Gering, NE 24 FTE
NAT-SIZE Meton - Houlton 24 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: 2024, 2023. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

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Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.