Grommets, rubber, manufacturing · Massachusetts

Teknor Apex Elastomers, Inc

Leominster, MA · ~82 workers · 9 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
4.3
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Teknor Apex Elastomers, Inc runs at 131% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Grommets, rubber, manufacturing workplace, earning a grade D.

Teknor Apex Elastomers, Inc: 4.3 TCR = 131% of Grommets, rubber, manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 9y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Teknor Apex Elastomers, Inc safety composite

Teknor Apex Elastomers, Inc scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 39%), 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).

C

58/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 4.33 per 100 workers

Safer than 39% 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%).

TCR Δ

−7.4

2016→2024

Teknor Apex Elastomers, Inc injury rate improved

Teknor Apex Elastomers, Inc's TCR fell 7.4 from 8.8 in 2016 to 1.4 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2016 at 8.8 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2016=8.8 · 2017=3.1 · 2018=2.0 · 2019=6.2 · 2020=5.7 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=5.1 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=1.4

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 326299 · Leominster, MA ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 4.3 · 131% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK P39
  • PHOTO Ames Rubber Corporat…
  • BOOK 9y book
  • INJ 29 inj
  • SIZE ~82 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Ames Rubber Corporation-Hamburg (0.0 TCR gap)

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Teknor Apex Elastomers, Inc in the TCR neighbourhood

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

TCR

What this shows Teknor Apex Elastomers, Inc averages 4.3 TCR (131% of the Grommets, rubber, manufacturing BLS benchmark).

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

Teknor Apex Elastomers, Inc TCR series: 2016=8.8 · 2017=3.1 · 2018=2 · 2019=6.2 · 2020=5.7 · 2021=1.1 · 2022=5.1 · 2023=5.5 · 2024=1.4 · BLS 3.3

Where Teknor Apex Elastomers, Inc falls in its industry

257 Grommets, rubber, manufacturin establishments

Safer than 39% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 3.6.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers
Teknor Apex Elastomers, Inc (82 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.6 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 0100200300400500 0246810 Average employees Total Case Rate Teknor Apex Elastomers, Inc
Teknor Apex Elastomers, Inc (82 employees, TCR 4.3) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 79 employees and a TCR of 3.6

Teknor Apex Elastomers, Inc has more employees than the Grommets, rubber, manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 3.6. 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 1.4 0.0 1 0 0
2023 5.5 4.1 4 0 0
2022 5.1 2.6 2 2 0
2021 1.1 1.1 1 0 0
2020 5.7 1.1 5 0 0
2019 6.2 4.1 6 0 0
2018 2.0 1.0 1 1 0
2017 3.1 3.1 3 0 0
2016 8.8 6.3 6 1 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

326299 · MA · Leominster

257 Grommets, rubber, manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 10,108 rated employers in Massachusetts with headcount on file · 107 employers in Leominster, 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 Ames Rubber Corporation-Hamburg 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Gates Corporation -Columbia MO 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR Pawling EP 4.3 TCR
NAICS-TCR ALL-STATE INDUSTRIES, INC. LEWISVILLE, TX 4.2 TCR
STATE-SIZE LEOMINSTER-MA16 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE 465 Sykes Road 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Braintree Laboratories 82 FTE
STATE-SIZE Gagliarducci Construction. Inc 82 FTE
CITY-NEAR HealthAlliance-Clinton Hospital 976 FTE
CITY-NEAR Affordable Interior Systems INC. 730 FTE
CITY-NEAR Market Basket #16 433 FTE
CITY-NEAR WM 2964 333 FTE
NAT-TCR Giant Eagle #0070 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR Alcom Printing Group, Inc. 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR IKEA Westampton DC 4.3 TCR
NAT-TCR SFB 4.3 TCR
NAT-SIZE Homewood Disposal Service, Inc. 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Batavia - 20104 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Lowes Foods #215 82 FTE
NAT-SIZE Shawnee Colonial Estates 82 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, 2018, 2017, 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.