Balances and scales (except laboratory) merchant wholesalers · New York

Sam Tell and Son, Inc.

Farmingdale, NY · ~202 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
3.6
Avg TCR
2.2
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sam Tell and Son, Inc. runs at 165% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Balances and scales (except laboratory) merchant wholesalers workplace, earning a grade D.

Sam Tell and Son, Inc.: 3.6 TCR = 165% of Balances and scales (except laboratory) merchant wholesalers BLS 2.2 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sam Tell and Son, Inc. safety composite

Sam Tell and Son, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 36%), 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)
D 3.64 per 100 workers

Safer than 36% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.57 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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

−1.0

2023→2024

Sam Tell and Son, Inc. injury rate improved

Sam Tell and Son, Inc.'s TCR fell 1.0 from 4.2 in 2023 to 3.1 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 4.2 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.43× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=4.2 · 2024=3.1

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 423440 · Farmingdale, NY ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 3.6 · 165% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #4/5
  • PHOTO FRS, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~202 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: FRS, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Sam Tell and Son, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sam Tell and Son, Inc. averages 3.6 TCR (165% of the Balances and scales (except laboratory) merchant wholesalers BLS benchmark).

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

Sam Tell and Son, Inc. TCR series: 2023=4.2 · 2024=3.1 · BLS 2.2

Where Sam Tell and Son, Inc. falls in its industry

118 Balances and scales (except la establishments

Safer than 36% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 5 Balances and scales (except la employers in New York.

Sam Tell and Son, Inc. (202 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 2.8 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 050100150200250 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sam Tell and Son, Inc.
Sam Tell and Son, Inc. (202 employees, TCR 3.6) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Sam Tell and Son, Inc. has more employees than the Balances and scales (except laboratory) median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.8. 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 3.1 1.6 6 0 0
2023 4.2 2.1 8 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

423440 · NY · Farmingdale

118 Balances and scales (except laboratory) merchant wholesalers employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 116 employers in Farmingdale, 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 FRS, Inc. 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Bargreen Ellingson Utah 3.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Winholt-TX 3.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Display Components Manufacturing 3.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE NYSEG Binghamton Service Center 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE Robert B. Samuels Inc. 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE Ultra Dairy LLC 202 FTE
STATE-SIZE The Fort Miller Co., Inc. 202 FTE
CITY-NEAR MELVILLE (NYMEL) 858 FTE
CITY-NEAR NYMEL - MELVILLE 828 FTE
CITY-NEAR 022 Farmingdale 820 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 5295 582 FTE
NAT-TCR Main Office 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Paul H Rohe Company 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR Noble Mountain Tree Farm 3.6 TCR
NAT-TCR American Flange & MFG CO 3.6 TCR
NAT-SIZE Wablh - Bellingham Center 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE Wakwk - Kennewick Office 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE Schaefer's Electrical Enclosures 202 FTE
NAT-SIZE GGI Secaucus 202 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.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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