Polishes (e.g., automobile, furniture, metal, shoe) manufacturing · Massachusetts

Shield Packaging Co Inc

Dudley, MA · ~85 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

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

Shield Packaging Co Inc runs at 101% of its industry's injury rate - about level with the typical Polishes (e.g., automobile, furniture, metal, shoe) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade C.

Shield Packaging Co Inc: 3.3 TCR = 101% of Polishes (e.g., automobile, furniture, metal, shoe) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Shield Packaging Co Inc safety composite

Shield Packaging Co Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 85% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 44%), 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).

C

60/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 3.34 per 100 workers

Safer than 44% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 85% 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%).

TCR Δ

−8.0

2016→2024

Shield Packaging Co Inc injury rate improved

Shield Packaging Co Inc's TCR fell 8.0 from 8.0 in 2016 to 0.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.0 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.0 · 2018=7.5 · 2019=0.0 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=4.5 · 2023=0.0 · 2024=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 325612 · Dudley, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade C · TCR 3.3 · 101% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #3/4
  • PHOTO Bio-Cide International
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 8 inj
  • SIZE ~85 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Bio-Cide International (0.0 TCR gap)

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Shield Packaging Co Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Shield Packaging Co Inc averages 3.3 TCR (101% of the Polishes (e.g., automobile, furniture, metal, shoe) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Shield Packaging Co Inc TCR series: 2016=8 · 2018=7.5 · 2019=0 · 2020=3.4 · 2021=4.5 · 2023=0 · 2024=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Shield Packaging Co Inc falls in its industry

143 Polishes (e.g., automobile, fu establishments

Safer than 44% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.9.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #3 safest of 4 Polishes (e.g., automobile, fu employers in Massachusetts.

Shield Packaging Co Inc (85 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.9 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 05001,0001,5002,0002,500 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Shield Packaging Co Inc
Shield Packaging Co Inc (85 employees, TCR 3.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 74 employees and a TCR of 2.9

Shield Packaging Co Inc has more employees than the Polishes (e.g., automobile, furniture, m median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.9. 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 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2023 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2021 4.5 2.3 2 2 0
2020 3.4 1.1 2 1 0
2019 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2018 7.5 3.2 3 4 0
2016 8.0 1.3 1 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

325612 · MA · Dudley

143 Polishes (e.g., automobile, furniture, metal, shoe) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 9 employers in Dudley, 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 Bio-Cide International 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Wesmar Company Inc. 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR State Cleaning 3.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crystal Packaging Inc 3.4 TCR
STATE-SIZE IPS - Integrated Project Services, LLC - Cardinal 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE BlueHive/Continental Woodcraft 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE 90003930 Canal 3 Simple Cycle Project 85 FTE
STATE-SIZE NA-US-MA-Wilmington- Research Drive 85 FTE
CITY-NEAR Gentex Optics, Inc. 423 FTE
CITY-NEAR Nichols College 423 FTE
CITY-NEAR Henke Sass Wolf of America, Inc 175 FTE
CITY-NEAR Webco Chemical Corporation 62 FTE
NAT-TCR Hoover,AL 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Villa Santa Barbara 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Mulberry Purina Feed Mill 3.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Rivera Equipment dba Valley Industrial Mechanical 3.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Freedom Springs 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Flavor & Fragrance Specialties 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE Burns Scalo Real Estate 85 FTE
NAT-SIZE The Rio at Mission Trails 85 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, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2016. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.
Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.