Grains, abrasive, natural and artificial, manufacturing · Massachusetts

Saint-Gobain Northampton

Northampton, MA · ~21 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
10.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Saint-Gobain Northampton runs at 319% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Grains, abrasive, natural and artificial, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Saint-Gobain Northampton: 10.5 TCR = 319% of Grains, abrasive, natural and artificial, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Saint-Gobain Northampton safety composite

Saint-Gobain Northampton scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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

17/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 10.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 9% of industry peers

DART rate
F 15.68 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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

Saint-Gobain Northampton: 5.5 → 20.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 20.9 TCR · DART/TCR 1.49× in 2018

Saint-Gobain Northampton's TCR rose 15.3 from 5.5 in 2016 to 20.9 in 2018. In 2018, DART was 1.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327910 · Northampton, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.5 · 319% of ind

  • DART 15.7 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO Carborundum Grinding…
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 2 inj
  • SIZE ~21 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Carborundum Grinding Wheel Company (0.3 TCR gap)

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Saint-Gobain Northampton in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Saint-Gobain Northampton averages 10.5 TCR (319% of the Grains, abrasive, natural and artificial, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Saint-Gobain Northampton TCR series: 2016=5.5 · 2017=5.1 · 2018=20.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Saint-Gobain Northampton falls in its industry

90 Grains, abrasive, natural and establishments

Safer than 9% 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 #9 safest of 9 Grains, abrasive, natural and employers in Massachusetts.

Saint-Gobain Northampton (21 employees, TCR 10.5) 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 Northampton
Saint-Gobain Northampton (21 employees, TCR 10.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Saint-Gobain Northampton has fewer employees than the Grains, abrasive, natural and artificial 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
2018 20.9 15.7 1 3 0
2017 5.1 5.1 0 1 0
2016 5.5 0.0 1 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327910 · MA · Northampton

90 Grains, abrasive, natural and artificial, 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 Carborundum Grinding Wheel Company 10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR THERM-O-ROCK EAST, INC.- Donora Plant 10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Global Abrasives, Inc. - 62 Mill Street 10.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Leaders Manufacturing, Inc. 11.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bellingham Energy 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Medway 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE West Medway Power Plant 21 FTE
STATE-SIZE Allendale Biomass LLC 21 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 Gavilon Grain - Vicksburg 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Minneapolis Plate Division 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR 1034 Southern York Co. School District 10.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Superior Lawns Inc.-Plainfield Branch 10.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Moline Customer Office 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Rescar - Loc#540 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Safety Zone-Indiana 21 FTE
NAT-SIZE Paramount Roll Forming Inc 21 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.