Abrasive products manufacturing · Massachusetts

Specialty Grains and Powders Worcester

Name: Specialty Grains and Powders Worcester Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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Worcester, MA · ~56 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

A
Excellent Safety Record: 1.0
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Specialty Grains and Powders Worcester runs at 31% of its industry's injury rate - far safer than the typical Abrasive products manufacturing workplace, earning a grade A.

Specialty Grains and Powders Worcester: 1.0 TCR = 31% of Abrasive products manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Specialty Grains and Powders Worcester safety composite

Specialty Grains and Powders Worcester scores strongest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 91% 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).

79/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): A 1.02 per 100 workers

Safer than 91% of industry peers
DART rate: B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% 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%).

Specialty Grains and Powders Worcester held a steady TCR band

Specialty Grains and Powders Worcester's TCR held near 0.0 from 0.0 in 2017 to 0.0 in 2020. Peak filing year was 2019 at 3.1 TCR. In 2020, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2017=0.0 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=0.0

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 327910 · Worcester, MA AT/BELOW-IND · SMALL

Grade A · TCR 1.0 · 31% of ind

DART 0.0 DART
RANK #1/9
PHOTO Pureon Inc
BOOK 3y book
INJ 2 inj
SIZE ~56 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Pureon Inc (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Specialty Grains and Powders Worcester averages 1.0 TCR (31% of the Abrasive products manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Specialty Grains and Powders Worcester TCR series: 2017=0 · 2019=3.1 · 2020=0 · BLS 3.3

Where Specialty Grains and Powders Worcester falls in its industry

90 Abrasive products manufacturin establishments

Safer than 91% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

Grade A

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #1 safest of 9 Abrasive products manufacturin employers in Massachusetts.

Specialty Grains and Powders Worcester (56 employees, TCR 1.0) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 61 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Specialty Grains and Powders Worcester has fewer employees than the Abrasive products manufacturing median and a lower injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.5. 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
2020	0.0	0.0	0
2019	3.1	3.1	2
2017	0.0	0.0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

327910 · MA · Worcester

90 Abrasive products manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 248 employers in Worcester, MA · 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	Pureon Inc	MONROE, NC	1.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Saint Gobain Abrasives Inc	BROWNSVILLE, TX	0.9 TCR
NAICS-TCR	UNISAND	MEDINA, OH	0.8 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Hyperion Worthington	WORTHINGTON, OH	0.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Smolak Farms	NORTH ANDOVER	56 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Liberty Utilities Fifth Street	FALL RIVER	56 FTE
STATE-SIZE	7238_16578	CARLISLE	56 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Fontaine Bros. Inc.	SPRINGFIELD	56 FTE
CITY-NEAR	UMass Memorial Health	Worcester	12,452 FTE
CITY-NEAR	4701-813	Worcester	2,492 FTE
CITY-NEAR	St Vincent hospital	Worcester	1,965 FTE
CITY-NEAR	NBC Distributors Inc	Worcester	1,276 FTE
NAT-TCR	Atlas Copco Tools and Assembly LLC	Auburn Hills, MI	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	DCA Home Office	Austin, TX	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Bowen Industrial Contractors	El Paso, TX	1.0 TCR
NAT-TCR	Sun Construction & Facility Services, Inc.	Longmont, CO	1.0 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Alpine Roofing Co., Inc.	Sparks, NV	56 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Lactalis USA Inc.	Merrill, WI	56 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Columbus Facility	Columbus, WI	56 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Jacobsson Engineering Construction, Inc.	Thousand Palms, CA	56 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: 2020, 2019, 2017. 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.