Fabricated structural metal manufacturing · Connecticut

Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Newington

Newington, CT · ~37 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
15.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Newington runs at 475% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fabricated structural metal manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Newington: 15.7 TCR = 475% of Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Newington safety composite

Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Newington scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 2%), 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).

F

15/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 15.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 3% of industry peers

DART rate
F 12.88 per 100 workers

Safer than 2% 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%).

Rising injury rate

Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Newington: 8.0 → 19.3 TCR

Peak year 2020 @ 19.7 TCR · DART/TCR 0.82× in 2021

Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Newington's TCR rose 11.4 from 8.0 in 2019 to 19.3 in 2021. Peak filing year was 2020 at 19.7 TCR. In 2021, DART was 0.82× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332312 · Newington, CT ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 15.7 · 475% of ind

  • DART 12.9 DART
  • RANK #9/9
  • PHOTO Streich Bros. Inc.
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 16 inj
  • SIZE ~37 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Streich Bros. Inc. (0.1 TCR gap)

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Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Newington in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Newington averages 15.7 TCR (475% of the Fabricated structural metal manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Newington TCR series: 2019=8 · 2020=19.7 · 2021=19.3 · BLS 3.3

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

1,491 Fabricated structural metal ma establishments

Safer than 3% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Connecticut alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 9 Fabricated structural metal ma employers in Connecticut.

Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Newington (37 employees, TCR 15.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6 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 0100200300400 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Newington
Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Newington (37 employees, TCR 15.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 54 employees and a TCR of 4.6

Shepard Steel Co., Inc. - Newington has fewer employees than the Fabricated structural metal manufacturin median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.6. 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
2021 19.3 12.9 6 0 0
2020 19.7 12.3 7 1 0
2019 8.0 5.3 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332312 · CT · Newington

1,491 Fabricated structural 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 Metric
NAICS-TCR Streich Bros. Inc. 15.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR Chief Industries Inc Buildings SC 15.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR DeLong's, Inc. - Sedalia 15.4 TCR
NAICS-TCR Plant 6 16.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Affinity Grow 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - New Britain 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Eversource - East Windsor 37 FTE
STATE-SIZE Loureiro Contractors, Inc. 37 FTE
CITY-NEAR Companions Forever LLC 406 FTE
CITY-NEAR CS Wholesale Grocers : Newington, CT (DC) 322 FTE
CITY-NEAR Stew Leonard's - Newington 275 FTE
CITY-NEAR 2965 218 FTE
NAT-TCR Critical Environments Inc 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR 4765-MOBCIUSPS 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Bickford of Quincy 15.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Dollar General (WC USX DIN) 15.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lexington Place 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE 44241d - Columbus Bin 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE 44161i - Montgomery Pec 37 FTE
NAT-SIZE 42451d - Hubbard 37 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: 2021, 2020, 2019. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.