Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing · Massachusetts

Steel Art Company

Norwood, MA · ~132 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
5.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Steel Art Company runs at 172% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Steel Art Company: 5.7 TCR = 172% of Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Steel Art Company safety composite

Steel Art Company scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 27%), 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

39/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 5.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
D 1.56 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% 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

−8.2

2023→2024

Steel Art Company injury rate improved

Steel Art Company's TCR fell 8.2 from 9.8 in 2023 to 1.6 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2023 at 9.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.28× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2023=9.8 · 2024=1.6

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 339950 · Norwood, MA ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 5.7 · 172% of ind

  • DART 1.6 DART
  • RANK #3/5
  • PHOTO Skyline Products, Inc.
  • BOOK 2y book
  • INJ 10 inj
  • SIZE ~132 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Skyline Products, Inc. (0.0 TCR gap)

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Steel Art Company in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Steel Art Company averages 5.7 TCR (172% of the Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Steel Art Company TCR series: 2023=9.8 · 2024=1.6 · BLS 3.3

Where Steel Art Company falls in its industry

405 Signs and signboards (except p establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.5.

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 5 Signs and signboards (except p employers in Massachusetts.

Steel Art Company (132 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5 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 0100200300 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Steel Art Company
Steel Art Company (132 employees, TCR 5.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 53 employees and a TCR of 3.5

Steel Art Company has more employees than the Signs and signboards (except paper, pape median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.5. 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 1.6 1.6 2 0 0
2023 9.8 3.3 8 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

339950 · MA · Norwood

405 Signs and signboards (except paper, paperboard) manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 79 employers in Norwood, 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 Skyline Products, Inc. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Doyle Sign Works, Inc 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Sunshine Electronic Display Corp. 5.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Art-Works Graphics 5.6 TCR
STATE-SIZE Comalli Group, Inc. 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Agri-Mark, Inc. 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE NAPP Lowell 132 FTE
STATE-SIZE Worcester Envelope Company 132 FTE
CITY-NEAR HallKeen Assisted Living 717 FTE
CITY-NEAR MANOR - NORWOOD 660 FTE
CITY-NEAR NORWOOD (MANOR) 660 FTE
CITY-NEAR Home Market Foods 428 FTE
NAT-TCR Ridge Equipment Company, Inc 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Jessica Charles 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Corporate Graphics Commercial - WI - 0027-WIGE1 5.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Plymouth Spring Company 5.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE Pottstown 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Slate Valley Center 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE USA Chicago 10000 Bessie Coleman Dr 132 FTE
NAT-SIZE Prl Industries, Inc 132 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. 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.