Manufacture Steel & Ceramic Bearing Balls · Connecticut

SKF Specialty Balls

Winsted, CT · ~62 workers · 8 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
2.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

SKF Specialty Balls runs at 70% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Manufacture Steel & Ceramic Bearing Balls workplace, earning a grade B.

SKF Specialty Balls: 2.3 TCR = 70% of Manufacture Steel & Ceramic Bearing Balls BLS 3.3 · 8y Form 300A (see methodology below)

SKF Specialty Balls safety composite

SKF Specialty Balls scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 56% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 14%), 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

40/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 2.32 per 100 workers

Safer than 56% of industry peers

DART rate
F 4.14 per 100 workers

Safer than 14% 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

SKF Specialty Balls: 0.0 → 4.1 TCR

Peak year 2019 @ 5.6 TCR · DART/TCR 1.78× in 2023

SKF Specialty Balls's TCR rose 4.1 from 0.0 in 2016 to 4.1 in 2023. Peak filing year was 2019 at 5.6 TCR. In 2023, DART was 1.78× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332991 · Winsted, CT AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade B · TCR 2.3 · 70% of ind

  • DART 4.1 DART
  • RANK #2/9
  • PHOTO Kaydon Corporation
  • BOOK 8y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~62 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Kaydon Corporation (0.0 TCR gap)

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SKF Specialty Balls in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows SKF Specialty Balls averages 2.3 TCR (70% of the Manufacture Steel & Ceramic Bearing Balls BLS benchmark).

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

SKF Specialty Balls TCR series: 2016=0 · 2017=1.7 · 2018=0 · 2019=5.6 · 2020=1.5 · 2021=1.9 · 2022=3.6 · 2023=4.1 · BLS 3.3

Where SKF Specialty Balls falls in its industry

125 Manufacture Steel & Ceramic Be establishments

Safer than 56% 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 #2 safest of 9 Manufacture Steel & Ceramic Be employers in Connecticut.

SKF Specialty Balls (62 employees, TCR 2.3) 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 SKF Specialty Balls
SKF Specialty Balls (62 employees, TCR 2.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 131 employees and a TCR of 2.8

SKF Specialty Balls has fewer employees than the Manufacture Steel & Ceramic Bearing Ball median and a lower 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
2023 4.1 4.1 3 0 0
2022 3.6 3.6 2 0 0
2021 1.9 1.9 1 0 0
2020 1.5 1.5 1 0 0
2019 5.6 2.8 3 1 0
2018 0.0 0.0 0 0 0
2017 1.7 1.7 1 0 0
2016 0.0 0.0 0 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332991 · CT · Winsted

125 Manufacture Steel & Ceramic Bearing Balls employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 7,008 rated employers in Connecticut with headcount on file · 23 employers in Winsted, 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 Kaydon Corporation 2.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR SKF USA Inc. - Sumter 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR TN-Tennessee, LLC. 2.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR NHBB, Inc. Astro Division 2.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Bartlett Brainard Eacott 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE NPL East LLC - Connecticut 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE 16-CT 62 FTE
STATE-SIZE Botanical Extract Manufacturer 62 FTE
CITY-NEAR Howmet - Winsted 153 FTE
CITY-NEAR Electric Motion Company 135 FTE
CITY-NEAR STOP & SHOP 100625 112 FTE
CITY-NEAR 100625 112 FTE
NAT-TCR Madonna ProActive 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR St Paul Plumbing and Heating Co 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR UAR-Kansas 2.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Lambright Woodworking, LLC 2.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Florida Bath and Surfaces 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE General Shale Moncure 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Western Division 62 FTE
NAT-SIZE Pawtucket, RI 62 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, 2017, 2016. 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.