Manufacture of Buttwold Fittings · New Jersey

Taylor Forge Stainless, Inc

Name: Taylor Forge Stainless, Inc Workplace Safety Data
Creator: PlainSafetyScore
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North Branch, NJ · ~77 workers · 2 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

Compiled by PlainSafetyScore · August 25, 2026

D
Poor Safety Record: 5.1
Avg TCR: 3.3
Industry avg: 0
Fatalities

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The verdict

Taylor Forge Stainless, Inc runs at 154% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Manufacture of Buttwold Fittings workplace, earning a grade D.

Taylor Forge Stainless, Inc: 5.1 TCR = 154% of Manufacture of Buttwold Fittings BLS 3.3 · 2y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Taylor Forge Stainless, Inc safety composite

Taylor Forge Stainless, Inc scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 51% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 25%), 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).

38/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR): D 5.09 per 100 workers

Safer than 40% of industry peers
DART rate: F 3.78 per 100 workers

Safer than 25% 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

Taylor Forge Stainless, Inc: 3.9 → 6.3 TCR

Peak year 2017 @ 6.3 TCR · DART/TCR 0.74× in 2017

Taylor Forge Stainless, Inc's TCR rose 2.4 from 3.9 in 2016 to 6.3 in 2017. In 2017, DART was 0.74× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 331210 · North Branch, NJ ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 5.1 · 154% of ind

DART 3.8 DART
RANK #6/6
PHOTO Swagelok Koppel
BOOK 2y book
INJ 6 inj
SIZE ~77 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Swagelok Koppel (0.0 TCR gap)

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What this shows Taylor Forge Stainless, Inc averages 5.1 TCR (154% of the Manufacture of Buttwold Fittings BLS benchmark).

Taylor Forge Stainless, Inc TCR series: 2016=3.9 · 2017=6.3 · BLS 3.3

Where Taylor Forge Stainless, Inc falls in its industry

329 Manufacture of Buttwold Fittin establishments

Safer than 40% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.3.

Grade D

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to New Jersey alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #6 safest of 6 Manufacture of Buttwold Fittin employers in New Jersey.

Taylor Forge Stainless, Inc (77 employees, TCR 5.1) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 99 employees and a TCR of 4.3

Taylor Forge Stainless, Inc has fewer employees than the Manufacture of Buttwold Fittings median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.3. 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
2017	6.3	3.8	3	2	0
2016	3.9	0.0	3	0	0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

331210 · NJ · North Branch

329 Manufacture of Buttwold Fittings employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 11,201 rated employers in New Jersey with headcount on file · 6 employers in North Branch, NJ · 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	Swagelok Koppel	KOPPEL, PA	5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Ohio Star Forge Co	WARREN, OH	5.1 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Felker Brothers Corporation	GLASGOW, KY	5.0 TCR
NAICS-TCR	Alliance Tubular Products LLC - Alliance Plant	ALLIANCE, OH	5.0 TCR
STATE-SIZE	Plainfield Production	PLAINFIELD	77 FTE
STATE-SIZE	Service Metal Fabricating	ROCKAWAY	77 FTE
STATE-SIZE	1900	SOUTH PLANFIELD	77 FTE
STATE-SIZE	BT Mount Laurel	MT. LAUREL	77 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Vollers Excavating and Construction, Inc	North Branch	209 FTE
CITY-NEAR	Schuetz Container Systems - North Branch NJ	North Branch	111 FTE
CITY-NEAR	North Branch	North Branch	91 FTE
CITY-NEAR	North Branch steel 1105	North Branch	51 FTE
NAT-TCR	0080 - Lafayette, La	Lafayette, LA	5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Big Lots Store #5139 N. Charleston,	North Charleston, SC	5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	InfuScience, Inc. - Charleston, SC - 2415	Mt Pleasant, SC	5.1 TCR
NAT-TCR	Preferred Laundry Service	Ebensburg, PA	5.1 TCR
NAT-SIZE	Diemasters Mg. Inc.	Elk Grove Village, IL	77 FTE
NAT-SIZE	Stop & Shop 100626	Darien, CT	77 FTE
NAT-SIZE	42611b - Cranberry Dc	Cranberry Township, PA	77 FTE
NAT-SIZE	M.A. Energy Resources, LLC	Overland Park, KS	77 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: 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.