Firearms, small, manufacturing · New Hampshire

Sturm, Ruger & Co.

Newport, NH · ~697 workers · 7 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
6.4
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Sturm, Ruger & Co. runs at 193% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Firearms, small, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Sturm, Ruger & Co.: 6.4 TCR = 193% of Firearms, small, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 7y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Sturm, Ruger & Co. safety composite

Sturm, Ruger & Co. scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 8%), 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).

F

22/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 6.38 per 100 workers

Safer than 8% of industry peers

DART rate
F 2.86 per 100 workers

Safer than 19% 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

−6.0

2016→2024

Sturm, Ruger & Co. injury rate improved

Sturm, Ruger & Co.'s TCR fell 6.0 from 10.7 in 2016 to 4.7 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 10.7 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0.45× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=10.7 · 2019=5.3 · 2020=7.9 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=6.7 · 2024=4.7

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 332994 · Newport, NH ABOVE-IND · MID

Grade D · TCR 6.4 · 193% of ind

  • DART 2.9 DART
  • RANK #12/13
  • PHOTO Remarms LaGrange
  • BOOK 7y book
  • INJ 289 inj
  • SIZE ~697 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Remarms LaGrange (0.2 TCR gap)

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Sturm, Ruger & Co. in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Sturm, Ruger & Co. averages 6.4 TCR (193% of the Firearms, small, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Sturm, Ruger & Co. TCR series: 2016=10.7 · 2019=5.3 · 2020=7.9 · 2021=4.5 · 2022=4.9 · 2023=6.7 · 2024=4.7 · BLS 3.3

Where Sturm, Ruger & Co. falls in its industry

126 Firearms, small, manufacturing establishments

Safer than 8% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 2.5.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Hampshire alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #12 safest of 13 Firearms, small, manufacturing employers in New Hampshire.

Sturm, Ruger & Co. (697 employees, TCR 6.4) 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 Sturm, Ruger & Co.
Sturm, Ruger & Co. (697 employees, TCR 6.4) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 98 employees and a TCR of 2.5

Sturm, Ruger & Co. has more employees than the Firearms, small, manufacturing median and a higher 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 4.7 2.9 32 1 0
2023 6.7 3.7 43 4 0
2022 4.9 2.7 28 5 0
2021 4.5 2.8 31 0 0
2020 7.9 3.6 39 12 0
2019 5.3 3.9 33 3 0
2016 10.7 8.3 83 23 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

332994 · NH · Newport

126 Firearms, small, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 2,718 rated employers in New Hampshire with headcount on file · 23 employers in Newport, NH · 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 Remarms LaGrange 6.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Crosman Corporation 6.2 TCR
NAICS-TCR SCCY Industries LLC - 120 Mason 6.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR Christensen Arms 6.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE Red River Technology LLC 699 FTE
STATE-SIZE Northeast Rehabilitation Hospital Network 700 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gateways Community Services 674 FTE
STATE-SIZE Omni Mount Washington Resort 720 FTE
CITY-NEAR Pine Tree Castings 126 FTE
CITY-NEAR LaValley Building Supply 108 FTE
CITY-NEAR Woodlawn Care Center report 80 FTE
CITY-NEAR Woodlawn Care Center 75 FTE
NAT-TCR Darigold 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR St. Louis Branch 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Liberty Aguadilla 6.4 TCR
NAT-TCR Sodexo at Freedom Financial Network Food 6.4 TCR
NAT-SIZE Kobe Aluminum Automotive Products 697 FTE
NAT-SIZE Climatec LLC 697 FTE
NAT-SIZE CVGGATEWAY 697 FTE
NAT-SIZE Cook Inc. Spencer 697 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, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 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.