Stair railings, metal, manufacturing · Connecticut

Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Miscellaneous Metals

Name: Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Miscellaneous Metals Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Newington, CT · ~34 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

F
Failing Safety Record: 10.2
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Miscellaneous Metals runs at 308% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Stair railings, metal, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Miscellaneous Metals: 10.2 TCR = 308% of Stair railings, metal, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Miscellaneous Metals safety composite

Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Miscellaneous Metals scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 11%), 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).

29/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): F 10.18 per 100 workers

Safer than 11% of industry peers
DART rate: D 2.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 35% 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

Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Miscellaneous Metals: 9.7 → 10.7 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 10.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.26× in 2024

Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Miscellaneous Metals's TCR rose 1.0 from 9.7 in 2023 to 10.7 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.26× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332323 · Newington, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 10.2 · 308% of ind

DART 2.7 DART
RANK #8/9
PHOTO Gilpin Products
BOOK 2y book
INJ 5 inj
SIZE ~34 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Gilpin Products (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Miscellaneous Metals averages 10.2 TCR (308% of the Stair railings, metal, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Miscellaneous Metals TCR series: 2023=9.7 · 2024=10.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Miscellaneous Metals falls in its industry

309 Stair railings, metal, manufac establishments

Safer than 11% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.1.

Grade F

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #8 safest of 9 Stair railings, metal, manufac employers in Connecticut.

Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Miscellaneous Metals (34 employees, TCR 10.2) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 48 employees and a TCR of 4.1

Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Miscellaneous Metals has fewer employees than the Stair railings, metal, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.1. 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
2024	10.7	2.7	4	0	0
2023	9.7	3.2	1	2	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332323 · CT · Newington

309 Stair railings, metal, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 85 employers in Newington, CT · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel	Establishment	Place	Metric
NAICS-TCR	Gilpin Products	DECATUR, IN	10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	iDeal Deals, LLC	ST. AUGUSTINE, FL	10.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Badger Railing Inc.	MILWAUKEE, WI	10.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Springfield Welding & Mfg Co Inc.	WAUNAKEE, WI	10.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Herb Holden Trucking, Inc.	BROAD BROOK	34 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Eversource - Waterbury Freight	WATERBURY	34 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Mattern Construction Inc.	BALTIC	34 FTE
STATE-SIZE	City Of Meriden Public Works	MERIDEN	34 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Companions Forever LLC	Newington	406 FTE
CITY-NEAR	CS Wholesale Grocers : Newington, CT (DC)	Newington	322 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Stew Leonard's - Newington	Newington	275 FTE
CITY-NEAR	2965	Newington	218 FTE
NAT-TCR	Iron Oak Plumbing, Inc.	Rocklin, CA	10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Highbanks Care Center	Columbus, OH	10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	AES Industries	Tallassee, AL	10.2 TCR
NAT-TCR	Patrick Lumber Manufacturing	Philomath, OR	10.2 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Imdc, Inc.	Denver, CO	34 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Hart County Ambulance Service	Munfordville, KY	34 FTE
NAT-SIZE	River Park Residences, LP	Bronx, NY	34 FTE
NAT-SIZE	A.M. Logging, LLC	Millheim, PA	34 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.

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