Brooms, hand and machine, manufacturing · Massachusetts

Sanderson MacLeod, Inc.

Palmer, MA · ~95 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.0
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sanderson MacLeod, Inc. runs at 182% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Brooms, hand and machine, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Sanderson MacLeod, Inc.: 6.0 TCR = 182% of Brooms, hand and machine, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sanderson MacLeod, Inc. safety composite

Sanderson MacLeod, Inc. scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 19%), 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

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.99 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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

Sanderson MacLeod, Inc.: 2.5 → 7.9 TCR

Peak year 2018 @ 12.1 TCR · DART/TCR 0× in 2024

Sanderson MacLeod, Inc.'s TCR rose 5.4 from 2.5 in 2016 to 7.9 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2018 at 12.1 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339994 · Palmer, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 6.0 · 182% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P19
  • PHOTO Wooster Brush Co. - …
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~95 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Wooster Brush Co. - Plant 2 (0.1 TCR gap)

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Sanderson MacLeod, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sanderson MacLeod, Inc. averages 6.0 TCR (182% of the Brooms, hand and machine, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sanderson MacLeod, Inc. TCR series: 2016=2.5 · 2018=12.1 · 2020=2.9 · 2022=1.8 · 2023=8.6 · 2024=7.9 · BLS 3.3

Where Sanderson MacLeod, Inc. falls in its industry

47 Brooms, hand and machine, manu establishments

Safer than 19% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Sanderson MacLeod, Inc. (95 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 119 employees and a TCR of 3.0 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Sanderson MacLeod, Inc.
Sanderson MacLeod, Inc. (95 employees, TCR 6.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 119 employees and a TCR of 3.0

Sanderson MacLeod, Inc. has fewer employees than the Brooms, hand and machine, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.0. 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 7.9 0.0 3 5 0
2023 8.6 1.9 2 7 0
2022 1.8 0.9 1 1 0
2020 2.9 1.0 1 2 0
2018 12.1 3.0 8 4 0
2016 2.5 1.3 1 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339994 · MA · Palmer

47 Brooms, hand and machine, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 27 employers in Palmer, 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 Wooster Brush Co. - Plant 2 5.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR E. Gornell & Sons, LLC 5.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR LINZER PRODUCTS CORP 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Felton Incorporated 6.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE Cranshaw Construction of New England 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE Baltazar Contractors 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE T.L. Edwards, Inc. 95 FTE
STATE-SIZE J H Lynch - Millbury 95 FTE
CITY-NEAR WMH - Wing Memorial Hospital 676 FTE
CITY-NEAR BWH - Baystate Wing Hospital 668 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern Tree Service, LLC 189 FTE
CITY-NEAR Northern General Contractors Inc 168 FTE
NAT-TCR Aquarium-Denver 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Concrete 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Oregon Institute of Technology 6.0 TCR
NAT-TCR Infinity Molding & Assembly, Inc. 6.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE location 11741 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Empac Industrial Resources South 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Vissering Construction Company 95 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lubbock 95 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, 2022, 2020, 2018, 2016. 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.