Firearms, small, manufacturing · Massachusetts

Smith & Wesson

Springfield, MA · ~1,472 workers · 6 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

B
Good Safety Record
1.9
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Smith & Wesson runs at 56% of its industry's injury rate - safer than the typical Firearms, small, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade B.

Smith & Wesson: 1.9 TCR = 56% of Firearms, small, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 6y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Smith & Wesson safety composite

Smith & Wesson scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 66% of same-industry peers) and weakest on fatalities (safer than 50%), 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

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
C 1.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 66% of industry peers

DART rate
C 0.94 per 100 workers

Safer than 55% 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

Smith & Wesson: 1.5 → 2.0 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 2.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.51× in 2024

Smith & Wesson's TCR rose 0.5 from 1.5 in 2016 to 2.0 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2017 at 2.5 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.51× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332994 · Springfield, MA AT/BELOW-IND · LARGE

Grade B · TCR 1.9 · 56% of ind

  • DART 0.9 DART
  • RANK P66
  • PHOTO Tactical Kinetics
  • BOOK 6y book
  • INJ 158 inj
  • SIZE ~1,472 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Tactical Kinetics (0.0 TCR gap)

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Smith & Wesson in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Smith & Wesson averages 1.9 TCR (56% of the Firearms, small, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Smith & Wesson TCR series: 2016=1.5 · 2017=2.5 · 2018=2 · 2020=0.9 · 2023=2.2 · 2024=2 · BLS 3.3

Where Smith & Wesson falls in its industry

126 Firearms, small, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 66% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Smith & Wesson (1,472 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 2.5 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 05001,0001,5002,000 05101520 Average employees Total Case Rate Smith & Wesson
Smith & Wesson (1,472 employees, TCR 1.9) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Smith & Wesson has more employees than the Firearms, small, manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 2.5. 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 2.0 0.9 18 1 0
2023 2.2 1.1 29 0 0
2020 0.9 0.6 15 0 0
2018 2.0 1.2 30 2 0
2017 2.5 1.7 40 8 0
2016 1.5 0.8 26 5 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332994 · MA · Springfield

126 Firearms, small, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 215 employers in Springfield, 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 Tactical Kinetics 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kimber Ridgefield 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kimber Mfg., Inc. 161 Railroad 1.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR Kimber Troy 1.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE HMH Boston 1,474 FTE
STATE-SIZE Charles River Laboratories 1,466 FTE
STATE-SIZE NBC Operating, LP 1,483 FTE
STATE-SIZE Holy Family Hospital - Methuen 1,454 FTE
CITY-NEAR BMC - Baystate Medical Center 8,310 FTE
CITY-NEAR BMP - Baystate Medical Practices 1,977 FTE
CITY-NEAR Blue Tarp Redevelopment, LLC d/b/a MGM Springfield 1,867 FTE
CITY-NEAR BMF - Baystate Medical Practices 1,746 FTE
NAT-TCR St. Michael-Albertville Middle School West 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR The Andersons Inc. - Montgomery 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Anderson Asheville, LLC 1.9 TCR
NAT-TCR Lubbock,TX - 409 1.9 TCR
NAT-SIZE Waterbury Hospital 1,472 FTE
NAT-SIZE City of Santa Ana 1,472 FTE
NAT-SIZE Logan Aluminum, Inc. 1,472 FTE
NAT-SIZE Froedtert Menomonee Falls Hospital 1,473 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, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016. 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.