Insulation and cushioning, polystyrene foam plastics, manufacturing · New York

Shelter Enterprises, Inc.

Cohoes, NY · ~56 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.1
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shelter Enterprises, Inc. runs at 155% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Insulation and cushioning, polystyrene foam plastics, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Shelter Enterprises, Inc.: 5.1 TCR = 155% of Insulation and cushioning, polystyrene foam plastics, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shelter Enterprises, Inc. safety composite

Shelter Enterprises, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 23%), 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

35/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.13 per 100 workers

Safer than 23% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.54 per 100 workers

Safer than 37% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

−4.2

2018→2023

Shelter Enterprises, Inc. injury rate improved

Shelter Enterprises, Inc.'s TCR fell 4.2 from 6.8 in 2018 to 2.5 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 9.2 TCR. In 2023, DART was 0.5× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2018=6.8 · 2019=9.2 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=4.0 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=2.5

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326140 · Cohoes, NY ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 155% of ind

  • DART 2.5 DART
  • RANK #7/7
  • PHOTO EFP Evansville
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: EFP Evansville (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shelter Enterprises, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shelter Enterprises, Inc. averages 5.1 TCR (155% of the Insulation and cushioning, polystyrene foam plastics, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Shelter Enterprises, Inc. TCR series: 2018=6.8 · 2019=9.2 · 2020=2.3 · 2021=4 · 2022=5.9 · 2023=2.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Shelter Enterprises, Inc. falls in its industry

260 Insulation and cushioning, pol establishments

Safer than 23% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.1.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New York alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #7 safest of 7 Insulation and cushioning, pol employers in New York.

Shelter Enterprises, Inc. (56 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.1 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 0100200300400500 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Shelter Enterprises, Inc.
Shelter Enterprises, Inc. (56 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 66 employees and a TCR of 3.1

Shelter Enterprises, Inc. has fewer employees than the Insulation and cushioning, polystyrene f median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.1. 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
2023 2.5 2.5 1 0 0
2022 5.9 5.9 3 0 0
2021 4.0 4.0 2 0 0
2020 2.3 2.3 1 0 0
2019 9.2 9.2 4 0 0
2018 6.8 6.8 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326140 · NY · Cohoes

260 Insulation and cushioning, polystyrene foam plastics, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 21,008 rated employers in New York with headcount on file · 34 employers in Cohoes, 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 EFP Evansville 5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR Airlite Plastics Co. Cold Chain 5.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cellofoam-Sallisaw, OK-BM/Shape/FAB (EPS) 5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Polyfoam LLC 5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Arthur Kill Power LLC 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE NRG Arthur Kill Power LLC 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Solar Communities Inc. dba SunCommon 56 FTE
STATE-SIZE Orsted - New York City 56 FTE
CITY-NEAR Eddy Village Green 324 FTE
CITY-NEAR St. Peter's Health Partners/ Capital Regional Geriatric Center 275 FTE
CITY-NEAR FPI Mechanical, Inc. 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Capital Regional Geriatric Center 250 FTE
NAT-TCR Tuckahoe Family YMCA 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR Vasona Management Inc. 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR North Bay Produce MAA 5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR La Mesa Operations 5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE Elizabeth Randolph Lewis Powhatan YMCA 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Roseville, MN (TimeComm) 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE North Georgia Truss Systems LLC 56 FTE
NAT-SIZE Allied Refrigeration Inc. 56 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: 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.