Fabricated plate work manufacturing · Massachusetts

Steel-Fab, Inc.

Fitchburg, MA · ~48 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
6.7
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Steel-Fab, Inc. runs at 202% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Fabricated plate work manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Steel-Fab, Inc.: 6.7 TCR = 202% of Fabricated plate work manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Steel-Fab, Inc. safety composite

Steel-Fab, Inc. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% 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

37/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.67 per 100 workers

Safer than 27% of industry peers

DART rate
D 2.6 per 100 workers

Safer than 38% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% 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

Steel-Fab, Inc.: 4.6 → 7.8 TCR

Peak year 2021 @ 7.8 TCR · DART/TCR 0.39× in 2021

Steel-Fab, Inc.'s TCR rose 3.2 from 4.6 in 2017 to 7.8 in 2021. In 2021, DART was 0.39× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332313 · Fitchburg, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 6.7 · 202% of ind

  • DART 2.6 DART
  • RANK #4/4
  • PHOTO Cupples J&J Dyersburg
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 9 inj
  • SIZE ~48 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Cupples J&J Dyersburg (0.0 TCR gap)

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Steel-Fab, Inc. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Steel-Fab, Inc. averages 6.7 TCR (202% of the Fabricated plate work manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Steel-Fab, Inc. TCR series: 2017=4.6 · 2020=7.6 · 2021=7.8 · BLS 3.3

Where Steel-Fab, Inc. falls in its industry

449 Fabricated plate work manufact establishments

Safer than 27% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Massachusetts alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #4 safest of 4 Fabricated plate work manufact employers in Massachusetts.

Steel-Fab, Inc. (48 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5 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 0100200300400 0510152025 Average employees Total Case Rate Steel-Fab, Inc.
Steel-Fab, Inc. (48 employees, TCR 6.7) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 4.5

Steel-Fab, Inc. has fewer employees than the Fabricated plate work manufacturing median and a higher 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 Illnesses Fatalities
2021 7.8 2.6 3 0 0
2020 7.6 1.9 4 0 0
2017 4.6 0.0 2 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332313 · MA · Fitchburg

449 Fabricated plate work manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 46 employers in Fitchburg, 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 Cupples J&J Dyersburg 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR R & J Metal Fabricators Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR TrueNorth Steel- Huron 6.7 TCR
NAICS-TCR Cadillac Fabrication Inc 6.8 TCR
STATE-SIZE Payne|Bouchier Inc 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Rise Construction Management 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE NA-US-MA-South Dennis-Western Boulevard 48 FTE
STATE-SIZE Plymouth MA 48 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Basket #14 293 FTE
CITY-NEAR WORKERS CREDIT UNION 290 FTE
CITY-NEAR The Arc of Opportunity in North Central Massachusetts 250 FTE
CITY-NEAR the highlands 236 FTE
NAT-TCR Buena Vista Healthcare 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR CN - Chadds Ford 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Nuance Solutions 6.7 TCR
NAT-TCR Culpeper Farmers' Cooperative, Inc. 6.7 TCR
NAT-SIZE ADESA Nashville 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Dimetri Gardikas Produce Co Inc 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hirel Connectors - Cables (York) 48 FTE
NAT-SIZE Hilton Garden Inn Valencia Six Flags 48 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: 2021, 2020, 2017. 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.