Ball bearings manufacturing · Connecticut

Schaeffler Aerospace USA

Danbury, CT · ~307 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

C
Average Safety Record
3.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Schaeffler Aerospace USA runs at 94% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Ball bearings manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Schaeffler Aerospace USA: 3.1 TCR = 94% of Ball bearings manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Schaeffler Aerospace USA safety composite

Schaeffler Aerospace USA scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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

42/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.11 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.52 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% 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

Schaeffler Aerospace USA: 2.0 → 2.7 TCR

Peak year 2022 @ 4.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.49× in 2024

Schaeffler Aerospace USA's TCR rose 0.7 from 2.0 in 2021 to 2.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2022 at 4.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.49× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332991 · Danbury, CT AT/BELOW-IND · MID

Grade C · TCR 3.1 · 94% of ind

  • DART 1.5 DART
  • RANK #5/9
  • PHOTO Schaeffler Group USA…
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 36 inj
  • SIZE ~307 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Schaeffler Group USA Inc. - Fort Mill 1 (0.0 TCR gap)

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Schaeffler Aerospace USA in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Schaeffler Aerospace USA averages 3.1 TCR (94% of the Ball bearings manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Schaeffler Aerospace USA TCR series: 2021=2 · 2022=4.5 · 2023=3.2 · 2024=2.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Schaeffler Aerospace USA falls in its industry

125 Ball bearings manufacturing establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.8.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #5 safest of 9 Ball bearings manufacturing employers in Connecticut.

Schaeffler Aerospace USA (307 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 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 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Schaeffler Aerospace USA
Schaeffler Aerospace USA (307 employees, TCR 3.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 2.8

Schaeffler Aerospace USA has more employees than the Ball bearings manufacturing 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 2.7 1.5 8 1 0
2023 3.2 1.8 9 2 0
2022 4.5 3.2 13 1 0
2021 2.0 1.7 6 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332991 · CT · Danbury

125 Ball bearings manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 171 employers in Danbury, CT · 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 Schaeffler Group USA Inc. - Fort Mill 1 3.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Heim Bearings 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Koyo Richland Plant 3.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Morganton - Burke Drive 3.3 TCR
STATE-SIZE ADUSA Dist DC 91 Manchester CT 307 FTE
STATE-SIZE Mosaic Cromwell 307 FTE
STATE-SIZE Stamford HUB 306 FTE
STATE-SIZE Milford Markets LLC 306 FTE
CITY-NEAR DANBURY HOSPITAL INC. 2,822 FTE
CITY-NEAR Board of Education 2,209 FTE
CITY-NEAR Western CT Medical Group 1,400 FTE
CITY-NEAR Western Connecticut Medical Group 1,239 FTE
NAT-TCR Amazon.com Services LLC - LAS2 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Verde Valley 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Cal Stripe Inc. 3.1 TCR
NAT-TCR doTERRA Fulfillment Center 3.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE CA - LOreal 307 FTE
NAT-SIZE Feeser's, Inc. 307 FTE
NAT-SIZE Chicago Bagcraft Novolex Plant 307 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Galesburg 307 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, 2021. 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.